In Joy And In Sorrow

Alba Marineli is unable to have children, so she adopts Cirilo, a boy who becomes her and her husband's joy. Amidst so much happiness, Alba finally becomes pregnant as she had always dreamed. After the birth of her daughter, Alba rejects Cirilo and returns him to the orphanage, since she had only adopted him because she had not been able to have children until then.

When her husband learns of this, having grown attached to the boy through daily interaction, he goes to retrieve him from the o...