The Bride

Maria decides to marry a man she doesn't know to help her family.

A young woman from Calabria is forced into an arranged marriage to help her impoverished family.

The body is Giorgia's, Italo's first wife. The autopsy clears his name of any murder charge, but it also destroys his hopes of ever seeing her again. Devastated, the man attempts to end his life, but Maria manages to talk him out of it.

Before Maria went back to Calabria, Italo offered her the chance to never come back and be free of their make-believe marriage. Upset and disappointed, the woman returns home to assist her brother Giuseppe, gravely ill.

Vittorio dies. Since he regretted swindling the family of Italo's first wife, before his passing he had given the land he had stolen back to the woman's brother, and had bought new lands, seemingly marshy and fallow.

Maria's strength is unwavering as she fights for what she knows is right.