The most obvious version of the "Ipsen triangle". In a society that lives in conventional falsehood, the institution of the family is mainly shaken, thanks to the misunderstanding of people. Eda, the daughter of a general, who leads a suffocating married life, meets again her old and only true love. Her confrontation with memories and prospects for the future leads Eda to a complete deadlock, from which she emerges in the painful way chosen by the desperate.