Giovinetta and Johannes have finally professed their deep-rooted feelings for each other and spend their days basking in each other’s company—but their happiness is short-lived. Not only do their brother, Winfried, and Giovinetta’s maid, Griselda, quickly catch on to what is happening behind closed doors, but the arrival of Giovinetta’s future son-in-law provides a cold, hard reality check that the twins are unable to ignore. Will the voices of dissent be enough to extinguish the flames of their love?