One rainy night, Emma, wife of a country doctor named Charles Bovary, keeps staring at the Marquis d'Andervilliers's invitation to his ball where she had so much fun. She is very much bored and Charles decides to move the family to Yonville where he is welcomed by pharmacist M. Homais. After some time, Emma falls in love with young Léon who leaves for Paris to study before anything happens although he returns her love. After his departure, Emma starts an affair with a nobleman named Rodolphe and plans to go away with him. As she is about to leave and has made considerable debts, Rodolphe breaks up with her. Emma turns ill and Charles takes her to the Paris opera to change her mind. There they meet Léon and the two lovers arrange to meet secretly. Her debts will catch up with her.