In this love story, courtesan Violetta Valery meets a new admirer, Alfredo Germont, who confesses his love. Alfredo's father demands she renounce his son since the scandal of the affair has threatened his own daughter's engagement. Violetta resists but eventually agrees. Back in Paris, Alfredo denounces his former love cruelly, and months later, Violetta, deathly ill with tuberculosis, has only days to live. Alfredo becomes contrite as he learns the truth, but it may already be too late to ask her forgiveness.