 Marie, a servant in a bourgeois family, is dismissed and driven from the village when she becomes pregnant by the eldest daughter s fiance. She finds work as a maid in a bordello and gives birth to a girl. Despite the support from the madame and girls of the bordello, the baby is taken from her. Marie becomes an alcoholic and eventually dies. While scrubbing the floors of Heaven, she see her daughter about to be seduced as she was, so she pours out her bucket of water causing a spring shower that separates the couple.