Kacenka is a country girl who is sent by her uncle to Prague, where she works at first as a helper in a grocer's shop and later in a butcher's shop. Her sweetheart, Vincek, follows her to town but he has no luck. Kacenka, according to the predictions of a gipsy meets a rich engineer named Romanovsky who charms fer. One night thieves break into the butcher's villa and rob the sa...