In the year of 1879, a ship loaded with large quantities of goods bounding for the South American contient. There was a poor Spanish sailor, 17 years old. For earning money to marry his girl, he had to wave farewell to his three years older lover. He setted sail for development. Prior to departure, the beautiful young girl gave him one earring. Although the pair of earrings were not valuable, but they copied the pattern of Tiffany earrings, which were her favourite jewelry. The girl promised that she would wait for him to come back and married him. And the young man also promised that he would buy her real Tiffany jewelry after this voyage.
When the ship sailed to one place, where the crew were involved in a struggle with the local. The young sailor losed contact with the fleet in that struggle. After him waked up from a coma, the fleet had already left. So he had to stay there. Every night, he would look at that earring for a while, remembering his distant lover. 3 years later, he finally catched a chance to come home. A ship sailing for Spain was passing through that place, so he got on it. When he was about to arrive to Spain, he heard the heartbroken news. His lover, the young and beautiful girl had been married to a local aristocrat. He changed his mind at the moment of landing. And he went to distant lands. He leaved rage and grief to Spain, but he still kept that earring.
Then 20 years had passed. That poor young sailor had made a great success. Now he had a large fleet and huge wealth. He only lacked a wife. Many aristocrats wanted to marry their daughters to him, but he was just silent. So he got a lot of gossips. Everyone said that he was very strange. His servants often saw him in a deep trance in front of a simple earrings in the evening.
When he was 40 years old, he finally decided to return to Spain. He began to miss home. As he brought enormous wealth and unlimited business opportunities, Spain’s high society held a grand banquet for him. In that party, he was attracted by a girl. The girl was initiative. She raised her champagne, pouring into his cup. And he catched a familiar feeling from this girl. She was a trained upper-class woman, who had early stroke illustrious father and mother of premature death.
They developed rapidly and decided to get married. After the exchange of wedding rings, which were real Tiffany rings. His bride wore this luxurious ring, but this bride was not his old love. He gave that earring to the beautiful young bride. The bride exclaimed because her mother had an identical earring. Mystery was solved by the bride. The bride’s mother was his old lover. When they had gotten involvement in the local struggle, he lost contact with the fleet. And later the fleet came back home. The girl got the news that he was killed. However, the lover still waited for several years. Later, she got married. She had always been in depression. But she really loved Tiffany jewelry, and only them could make her feel better. However, shortly after giving birth to her daughter, she went away. He bursted into tears when he had known everything. Was it a twist of fate, or the grace of God; was it the gift from Angel, or the tale of earrings? He heard the solemn ringing of the bell in the church and saw all the pigeons in flight. His one hand hold the bride’s hand, and another hand with the other earring.