Sexually inexperienced and uneducated, Helga gets married. A gynecologist explains to her about sexual intercourse and birth control. Soon pregnant, she attends a course for expectant mothers, where she is given detailed information.
Helga wants to write a report on the student unrest for a magazine and sets out to South America to research purposes in order to get to know the Latin American situation on site. In Brazil she starts an affair with the interpreter Carlos.