Santos, a ship captain, loathes returning to his wife, Julia. He feels angry and guilty from her constant crying, believing her to be crying over the unused baby clothes as a means of placing blame on Santos for her miscarriage. One day, when avoiding Julia, he walks to town and hears music. Upon following the music, he sees people dancing and spots a beautiful woman, Victoria. Immediately, they begin to dance together and this begins their routinely dances together. They hold one another close and both know that they are in love with each other, though both are married. Santos is scheduled to leave and board his ship. He urges Victoria to leave with him, but they both know they cannot leave their pitiful marriages. Aboard, without Victoria, Santos relinquishes his love for her as well as his will to live. A terrible storm begins to brew and thrashes his ship about. Suddenly, the will to live returns to Santos, and with that also returns his love for Victoria. He beats the storm and gains the adoration of his crew. Upon landing, he rushes home, to find Victoria, and tell everyone the truth. But his house is empty, and his wife is gone. He fears she is dead. But Victoria is there and explains that her husband and Santos’s wife have run off together! Thinking this the brilliant luck needed for them to justify their love together, Victoria is joyful, but she realizes that Santos is enraged. For him to have beaten the tempest, to have beaten God, only to return to an absent wife—Santos is enraged. Victoria only laughs.