In the Ferrara countryside in the 1950s, Miranda, an attractive and helpful woman, manages an inn while awaiting the return of her husband Gino, missing in war. In the meantime, the woman indulges in numerous escapades: the truck driver Berto, Carlo, a former fascist in exile, who gives her expensive gifts, Norman, a young American technician of the pipeline, and finally there is Tony, the waiter of the inn who does not he dares, however, to show his love.