Venice is a city of carnivals and mysteries. Carefree, temperamental and generous people live here. That is why they ridicule the gentile Jew Shylock - greedy and gloomy usurer who counts every coin.
Will commerce or humanity win? Is the hero in love ready to pay the debt and save his friend? It seems that bloodshed is inevitable. But the power of female love suddenly intervenes in the events, which can withstand all obstacles and eventually win.