Stephanie was widowed early - this happened often with the wives of sailors - and remained the sole breadwinner of four children. She tried all the hard work that our town could offer a woman, but the money was still small and the family barely survived. At one of her jobs, Stefania met a man who began to take care of her and even bring food and gifts to the house for the children. She was afraid to believe in her happiness - at that time, widowhood was almost a sentence. The man quickly talked about the wedding, and saying that he wanted to show Stephanie to his family, he took her to the suburbs. She was on her way towards a new life...and ended up in a brothel, where her "fiancé" sold her for a few pennies. Unable to bear the betrayal and horrors of the life of a prostitute, she drank acid and ended up in our hospital ... a painful death. Stephanie returned to the hospital after her death in the hope of seeing her children by some miracle, but she never saw them.