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Left behind on the motorway by the coach in which her family was travelling to Pestum, Rosalba decides without giving the matter much thought to offer herself a little holiday in Venice. Wandering around the streets of Mestre to satisfy her curiosity, but with nothing in her stomach since the morning, Rosalba ends up in a strange restaurant with a strange waiter. Penniless, she is received by the waiter Fernando as his guest, and finds a temporary job. A strange relationship grows between the two. Meanwhile at the family home in the central Italian town of Teramo, the situation reaches crisis point, as Rosalba's husband decides to hire a private detective to look for her. When the detective arrives in Venice he manages to find Rosalba, but immediately falls in love with her neighbour and drops the case.