All her life, the younger sister considered the older one to have been fed up by a gypsy. According to the woman, her father always knew that this was not his daughter, because he married after the birth of the black-haired baby. The older sister refuses to recognize herself as a stranger among her own and explains her doubts to the younger one by a quarrel over the inheritance. So who is she — the daughter of her father or her mother's unknown lover?