Autumn 1943. Life of Italian jewries, such as family of Antonina Мацин, becomes more dangerous. When nazi Germany occupies greater part of her favourite motherland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation hangs inevitably above her, for Nina one chance to survive appears only - to leave Venice and parents, hidden in a village, together with the barely acquainted man.Нико Джерарди studied on a priest, while circumstances did not compel him to abandon a seminary, to manage a domestic farm. As a man with high moral principles he was not simply able to remain aside, when nazis began to threaten to lives in anything not guilty people. To help Nina he convinces her to pretend to be his fiancee. Now coming them both to represent a happy pair, so that nobody guessed about a dangerous secret.But rural life is heavy for municipal girl dreaming to become a doctor, and the provincial neighbours of Нико with dread behave to this soft and well-educated, but quite unknown woman. And, worse than all, their mistrust is divided by a local nazi official, acquainted Нико on a seminary, having old abacuses to him. What anymore he hears about Nina, the his suspicions grow anymore, and together with them and resolution to take revenge.