Amelia a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as La Rossa returns from Paris to her country a small seaside town in southern Italy where her father is the lighthouse keeper To her father and her fellow villagers she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont an elegant Parisian bandit Dupont however actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris and Amelia her lover and accomplice helps him to hide