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The opera's story continues the tale begun in Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Unlike Beaumarchais's own sequel, Le mère coupable (1792), Field's plot contains a live Cherubino (Beaumarchais killed him off before the 1792 story begins), who has deserted the army and run off to Madrid with Rosina, where the couple are struggling in poverty and awating the birth of their child. When Count Almaviva arrives, in disguise, with another young woman, Amparo, he asks Rosina to return with him. She does in the end, leaving Cherubino to try ihis luck with Amparo.
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