The noble knight Galeran Heywood returns from the crusade. He dreams of meeting his beautiful wife and little son. However, they do not welcome him at home, considering him dead. The son died, and the wife, distraught with grief, threw herself into the arms of her longtime admirer. It seemed that their lives were broken, like the fragile rose - the symbol of their love - was broken. Pride does not allow Giana to admit that, despite her involuntary betrayal, she loves her husband with all her heart, and Galeran is unable to ask her for what he wants more than anything in the world - to return to his arms, to his bed, to his life.