Pietro Bontempo

Three men in jail have the hope that an interview with a magistrate will reward them with a permit.

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, returns home after a long trip to Europe. He falls in love with a beautiful pastry chef, Gemma Rosselli, they decide to get married and, to finance the marriage, Dimitri returns to Russia to sell the family estate. Unfortunately he falls prey to a seductress, Princess Maria Nikolaevna Polozov ...