Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
The women of a Swiss community finally want to achieve equal rights. At the top of the uproar is the midwife Spyri, who does not want to be married by the head of the district, Stirnimann. They succeed in abducting the head of the community and using his former lover in his place.
