Don Quixote is beaten up by some galley slaves whom he frees, when he asks them to present himself to Dulcinea. He is taken to an inn where his wounds are cared for.
He also attacks and kills a number of sheep with his lance, believing the flock to be a pagan army.
When Don Quixote sees a field dotted with windmills, he attacks one of them believing that they are giants. He is lifted into the air and spun around by the windmill, but in this version he is not thrown to the ground. A mill worker stops the windmill from revolving so that Don Quixote can be disengaged from it. This scene, almost always played for laughs in other versions of the story, is given a very tragic quality here.