The Yellow Ticket

Jacob a farmer returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent The Baron grants the request but only for a barren rocky useless acreage The pair struggle to make do on this land but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his married daughter Anyas new baby on threat of eviction While nursing the daughters baby Maria receives unwelcome attentions from the daughters husband and a scandal erupts ruining Maria in her husbands eyes When she escapes from her employers and seeks to return home the police give her the yellow passport signifying a prostitute further degrading her She approaches home unsure of the reception that awaits her