Reed in the Wind is a novel published by Italian writer Deleida in 1913.

The novel is mainly written by Don Zam, a landowner in a remote area of Sardinia. He spent his life painstakingly managing real estate, with a conservative mind and abiding by the old traditions and customs of Sardinia. After the death of his wife, he disciplined his four daughters more strictly: Ruth, Estelle, Leah, and Noemi. They were not allowed to leave the boudoir, and he was bent on maintaining the status and reputation of the family.

unexpectedly, a stagnant pool of life set off waves. One night, the third daughter Li Niu suddenly disappeared. A well-educated, noble-born lady unexpectedly abandoned her home and eloped, which naturally became a sensational local news. The old manor owner flew into a rage and gnashed his teeth, vowing to catch Leah who ruined her family's reputation and punish her severely.

who knows, after a wave of unrest, there will be another wave. One morning, beside a wooden bridge at the entrance of the town, the villagers suddenly found a body-Don Zam.

The successive blows made the manor owner's family enveloped in a lonely and gloomy atmosphere. Only Leah's letter from Chivetavia, the Italian peninsula, brought a little outside anger. Leah told her sisters that after she left, she met a businessman who ran animals and married him. Soon, Leah wrote to announce that she had given birth to a son named Giacinto. However, the sisters abide by their father's teachings and always ignore them, indicating that they have drawn a clear line.

As time went by, Leah and her husband died one after another, and Giacinto gradually grew up. He wrote to his aunts that he wanted to go back to his mother's hometown, Sardinia, and find a job. For Giacinto's request, Sister Ruth was full of doubts and hesitations. My second aunt said she didn't object, but her fourth aunt was indifferent to Amy. Only Effex, the old long-term worker, is the most enthusiastic supporter.

Effex has worked in Don Zam's house all his life. He has a special feeling for Giacinto, because he loved Leah passionately in those years, and Leah escaped from this family with his help. When Don Zam caught Leah who ran away and escorted her to the town, it was he who took great risks and killed Don Zam and let Leah escape. After Don Zam's death, the family's economy became increasingly poor, the real estate was auctioned off little by little, snobbish relatives and neighbors cut off contacts, and they all worked hard inside and outside by Effex to cultivate the last manor land and fully support this declining family.

Giacinto returned to his mother's hometown. He was cheerful, free and easy, and fell in love with a poor girl, Grisida. He was keen on communication and soon spent all his money. He borrowed usury and went to the casino to try his luck, and as a result, he was heavily in debt. Family life is getting harder and harder. Aunt Ruth became depressed and died.

People in the town gradually noticed that the mayor, Don Press, became a guest of this isolated family. Don Priedu is a relative of the old manor owner, and he was born in a noble family. When the bourgeois revolution in northern Italy was victorious one after another and the old social relationship between the south and Sardinia fell apart, he grasped the social trend, managed industry and commerce, and soon made a fortune, becoming the richest man in the town and becoming the mayor. He covets Don Zam's real estate, and has long coveted Noemi's beauty. He expressed his willingness to buy Don Zam's last manor land and help the family financially, on the condition that he married Noemi. Noemi, who is aloof, refuses his proposal. She has fallen in love with Giacinto involuntarily, and the fire of love is burning in her cold heart for decades.

Giacinto really couldn't get along, so he had to make a living in a foreign land, and never heard from him again. Ai Sitai and Noemi stayed indoors all day, struggling to live in the wind and rain. They sent Effix to look for Giacinto. Effix met a group of blind people and beggars on the road and walked together. He took this group of vagrants in bad karma as his confidants, as if he thought that this life like a dervish might help him get rid of the troubles and sins in the world. But he gradually discovered that these blind people and beggars cheated each other for a few coppers, and even fought to the death. Disappointed and sad, he had to return to his hometown in a mess.

Noemi hates Don Prideaux, but she knows in her heart that it is getting harder and harder for her to resist his temptation. Now she has only one choice: bury love and happiness forever, and exchange fame and vitality for the ruined family.

Giacinto returned to his hometown, married Grisida, and still lived a poor life. Effix was about to become a long-term worker of Don Priedu, but he died sadly on the day Noemi married Don Priedu. Before he died, he said to Estelle, "We are all reeds in the wind, my mistress! We are reeds, and fate is the wind! "