A young man fails as a seller of household goods and his sister, tired of poverty, elopes with a criminal.
A 17th century woman, imprisoned for fighting in a bar, recounts her past to a priest. She tells of her father teaching her how to fence, of being sent to a convent by her aunt when her father died, of escaping by dressing as a man, and of her life as a man following the escape.
The story of a group of young people and the problems they face in modern society slowly begins to decline, due to family disintegration and loss of values.
