Who was in Eve's room at night? In his adaptation of the great Shakespearean classic "Romeo and Juliet", Gottfried Keller sets the ac tion in a village somewhere in 19th-century Switzerland. Two farmers live as good neighbors in a village until they get into a fight and within a few years lose all their money and the farms. Despite the great hostility between the families, their children Sali and Vrenchen fall in love. Knowing that their love has no future, the two young people decide to spend at least one really nice day together before they part ways... Themes: poverty and wealth, friendship and enmity, love and marriage, Society in the 19th century, guilt and honour.