Zhenu nachal'nika pochtovoy stantsii Severinu Rubo terzayut vospominaniya o khitroumnom prestuplenii, v kotorom ona ponevole stala souchastnitsey svoyego nelyubimogo muzha. Politsiya tak i ne nashla vinovnykh, no otnyne semeynaya zhizn' stanovitsya dlya molodoy zhenshchiny sovershenno nevynosima.Imenno togda yeye vnimaniye privlekayet mashinist lokomotiva Zhak Lant'ye. On khorosh soboy, ne lishen obayaniya, vygodno otlichayetsya ot tovarishchey po vysokooplachivayemoy professii chistym i asketic ...