The film tells the story of a judge  in his sixties who returns to his hometown in the countryside taking his young and seductive wife. The couple's life piques the curiosity of the gossiping population, who start to envy their happiness. The men of the city start looking for young lovers in the brothel and the betrayed wives start their prayers for the couple to disappear. The inhabitants of the city of Vultures do not settle down even with the sudden death of the judge who, in the grave, continues to tremble for his beloved.