 Donna Sofia, an attractive fishmonger, has rented the home from a dashing marshal who now returns to become the town police chief and wants to reclaim his home.The woman refuses to leave and almost accepts marriage to Antonio almost as a joke to make Nicolino, a fisherman who she is genuinely in love with, jealous.She goes along with the marshal's wooing and agrees to dump her fiancé and says she will marry him instead.