Nanninella, a waitress in a café, supports her father Giuseppone with her wages. He is a drunkard who mistreats her and takes advantage of her kindness. Courted by Tore, the young woman would like to become engaged to him,
but her father prefers to promise her in marriage to Carluccio...
The restoration was carried out in 2008
by CSC–Cineteca Nazionale, George Eastman House, and Associazione Orlando at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in Bologna, as part of the project Non solo dive. Women Pioneers of Italian Cinema.
