Valentina is in Sicily to get married. During their wedding trials, Valentina arrives in the church in her ceremony dress, causing fuss in the spectators since it is a superstitious tradition in Southern Italy not to appear in your ceremony dress before the marriage day. Valentina feels sick, spotting the dress with menstrual blood. She runs away from the church and faints a little further. Near there, Alberto, a hermit in the mountains, finds the unconscious woman and takes her away with him. Valentina wakes up at night in a house in the woods: she had been kidnapped.