"[2] Celestina, a young country girl from Castelluccio di Norcia, naive, inexperienced, ignorant, after having lost both parents goes to Rome to work as a maid at the house of a middle-class couple who are moving to a newly built neighborhood.

The two elders treat her as her daughter and plan to appoint her as their heir, but this decision triggers grievances from her relatives concerned.

Celestina then asks her boyfriend for help, but he pulls back from her and offers her a cohabitation, which the young woman refuses, abandoning both him and her work.

The young maid then finds a third job in a stately home, but after a promising start it causes a scandal when she is caught kissing in the bathroom with the plumber (Fernando), whom she had been looking for this time.

The family where the young woman works moves for the summer to Ladispoli, where she waits in vain for Fernando, as she had promised, to join her.