Girolamo and Fiorella have a dream to get married. Girolamo is a shepherd and spends his days tending to the flock in the mountain, hoping to save enough money to buy a ring and house. Fiorella is an embroiderer and sews countless sheets for them to use together. Both have a vision for their life together, especially imagining what their future house will look like. As the seasons pass, the couple slowly transforms their humble barn into the home of their dreams, adding stones from the mountain with the bricks and building an outdoor staircase. Come springtime, Girolamo saves enough money to buy Fiorella a gold ring, replacing the previous makeshift straw rings he would tie around her finger. They get married in the company of friends and soon depart from their little hamlet for a honeymoon in Rome. Neither of them has visited the city before, and an unwelcoming feeling settles in on the train ride there. When they arrive at their modest hotel, they juxtapose their room with their quiet home in the mountains. Later, when the couple goes to dine at a fancy restaurant, they sit in silence, gazing intently at another couple sitting opposite of them who embody the image of high social class. At nighttime, Fiorella admits her concern that Girolamo wishes for a wife similar to the pretty girl from the couple they saw at the restaurant. In turn, Girolamo says he was too focused on the man from the couple, worrying that his wife would want a more worldly husband. They laugh at their misunderstandings and sleep peacefully. In the morning, they agree to take the early train back to their home in the mountains.