Bored housewife and poor but honest salaryman go through their daily routine. A long visit by flirtatious 20yo niece of husband's arouses wife's jealousy then discontent. She goes back to her mother, returning the niece to her home on the way. some ambivalence about whether to return to husband but she does when he turns up. So it's back to the old routine, which isn't a tragedy, but isn't a happy ending either, just the way life often is.