All are artists (painters,musicians,poets...) ,all are bound for glory ,these are the salad days ,the youth.C'est La Vie De Bohême,the bohemian life.Mimi and Rodolphe go for a stroll in Les Jardins Du Luxembourg .It's Spring . Summer brings the 1848 Revolution.Rodolphe ,the poet ,is very disappointed cause nobody wants to publish his lines. Autumn (Fall) is the beginning of the bad days.The pals have nothing to burn in their fireplace "except themselves" .Mimi has left Rodolphe for she does not want to be a burden for him.Winter :as the snow flies,the friends celebrate Christmas ;Mimi has become a kept woman;she's dying and she's still in love with Rodolphe.