Stoicea, a poor man from a small village, asks for Califar's help to make him rich. Califar deceives him, offering him only a vision which seems very real for Stoicea.
The woman in red is Ana Cumpanas, a Romanian emigrated to the US, which facilitates the killing of her lover, the famous gangster John Dillinger in Chicago. After an adventurous life, the woman returns to die in her homeland.