Tio Lucas, the miller, lives with his pretty wife Frasquita in a pretty house where the important men of the town come in the evening to relax. Don Eugenio, the governor, has fallen for Frasquita and decides to try to seduce her. He has a local magistrate summon Tio away for an evening and goes to the house. In trying to find the back door, he falls in the river. He climbs out of the water to find Frasquita waiting for him with a gun. These adventures make him faint, and he falls to the floor. Frasquita, realizing what he has been trying to do, takes off in pursuit of Tio. Meanwhile, Tio has also figured out what is going on and starts back. The two pass each other in the night. Eugenio’s servant, Weasel, puts Eugenio in Tio’s bed and takes off after Frasquita, thinking her on her way to tell Eugenio’s wife, Mercedes, what Eugenio was doing with his evening. When Tio gets home, he looks through the keyhole and sees Eugenio lying in his bed. He figures his wife has been seduced and decides to seduce Mercedes in revenge. He takes off to town, wearing Eugenio’s clothes (including his three-cornered hat) which he found drying by the fire. He goes up to Mercedes’ room and hides under her bed. Frasquita, not finding Tio, returns to find Eugenio in Tio’s clothes just leaving her house. They realize where Tio has gone and take off after him. Mercedes sees Tio under her bed and the two hatch a plan to fool Eugenio. When he shows up with Frasquita, he confronts Mercedes with having slept with Tio, but Mercedes puts him down with scorn, tells him that she knows what he’s been up to. She helps Tio and Frasquita prove their mutual guiltlessness. Tio apologizes for doubting his wife and the two leave to live happily ever after. Mercedes bans Eugenio from her bed, and when he dies a few years later in Napoleon’s invasion, she joins a monastery.

Cut, shallow and not of much worth.