A humble country girl moves to the city to work as a maid, eventually finding love and adventure.
A young peasant, Maria Papoila runs away one day to Lisbon, where she finds a job as a chambermaid. There she meets a soldier, number 29, with whom she becomes infatuated, not knowing that he is Eduardo da Silveira, a young man of good family who hangs around with her just for fun.—Guy Bellinger