What should a charming girl do, whose parents have died, and her uncle-guardian turned out to be a decent brute, reproaches every piece of bread and disposes of Melinda as if she were her own thing? Having fled from her obnoxious guardian, the orphan immediately finds herself in a stormy whirlpool of events: high-society revelers, secret dens of debauchery, luxurious prostitutes, calculating and ruthless madams surrounded her with a dense wall... But God's providence brings the girl clean, safe and unharmed from all the devil's traps, and she finds Love, moreover, mutual...