A sad tale of a college girl, Gilberte, who has a penchant for mathematics, a quality which she inherited from her father. Gilberte has thoughts of being with “someone quiet and dreamy, who will smile when you mention the pleasure of numbers. Someone from the same field to talk projective geometry with in the evenings". But she gets married to the first man she met at a dance, has five children, and ends up unning a fish and chip shop.