The heroine loves her father's clerk. The appearance of her father, who is wooing her for a rich old man, forces her to hide her lover under a featherbed, where he suffocates. In this involuntary, almost anecdotal murder - all the burden of habitual subordination. Having discovered the corpse, the mother and daughter, in fear, call the janitor, who hides the body in a barrel and dumps it into the river. But he begins to blackmail the master's daughter, forces her to cohabit and demands a tavern where he drinks with friends. After waiting for them to get drunk, the heroine wants to hack the janitor with an ax, but then sets fire to the tavern.
