After taking a welding job in Sicily, a young man realizes he misses his fiancee who remains in Milan. In his loneliness, the young man stumbles across ways to rejuvinate their passion. Known for his humanism and his political content, director Ermanno Olmi (TREE OF THE WOODEN CLOGS) reached the heights of his over thirty years in the cinema during the early sixties. This 1962 film conveys the simplicity and emotional power that has made many of his works timeless.