The fisherman’s daughter has two suitors. One brings her a rosebush, which she plants beside the cottage door. His rival crushes the plant with his heel. The girl plants it afresh and in time it blooms. In a teasing mood she tosses the rose down the cliff and tells the two men that he who brings it back to her will win her hand. The giver of the rosebush is first to grasp the prize, but, losing his footing, he falls and breaks his leg. The rival easily recovers the’ rose, brings it to the girl and soon marries her. Meanwhile the fisher lad, taken to the cottage of a passer-by, is tended by the latter’s daughter, who falls in love with him. Convalescent he learns that his rival has married the girl to whom he gave the rose. Then his eyes are opened to her unworthiness and to the true love that waits for him in the little cottage where he was nursed so tenderly back to health.