When Luzetta goes to fill her jug with water she meets Petro, her peasant lover. He accompanies her to her home, and while they are having a love scene she is rudely ordered into the cottage by her disagreeable, mercenary father, and poor Petro sent off because of his poverty. Jacques, a wealthy suitor, shortly after comes and offers gold for Luzetta. This is perfectly satisfactory to her father, but not so to the girl. She holds them off with her stiletto and mounts a ladder to the upper part of the cottage. The father takes away the ladder and says there she will remain until she accepts Jacques. Luzetta, however, risks making her way out through the window, and does get away. An old Mexican woman sees her flight and goes into the cottage to tell of it. Jacques and the father hurry after Luzetta. She leads them up and down hills and through many dangerous places, and at last, breathless, she reaches her sweetheart’s hut. He is seated dejectedly on the porch, gazing lovingly at the rose she had given him. They both enter the house and he bolts the door. Jacques and the father beat on this until it gives way, but by this time Petro and Luzetta have gotten out of the window and are mounted on a horse. They ride to the Padre to be married, while the other two return to the cottage, arguing all the way about the gold. Jacques would have it back and the father would keep it. By the time they reach Luzetta’s home they are in a fighting mood and Jacques throws the father down. It is only the intervention of Petro that saves the father. Jacques is hurried off, minus girl and gold, and the father feeling any other course would now be useless, speeds the young couple on their way, while he goes in the count his gold.