Anna Davati is a very beautiful woman of about forty years who moves from the big city where she lives to a small provincial town to answer a job advertisement published in a newspaper. She appears, therefore, at the home of Carlo Silvio, a writer of about forty-five who became blind after gaining popularity and international recognition after publishing only three books The man looks for a secretary that would take care of the library, read the books that he will require that proofread his book. But puts a condition that he considers essential.His secretary must be ugly. Anna, on the contrary, is a beautiful woman .She gets hired and with the passing of days, a rather complicated coexistence between them unfolds