Mimì asks Marcello to speak to Rodolfo for her because his jealousy has made their life together impossible. On a cold February dawn, people enter the district looking for work. As a military tattoo passes by, Musetta instructs the Bohemians to add their bill to hers: Alcindoro can settle them both. Finally, she despatches Alcindoro to buy her a pair of shoes and throws herself into Marcello’s arms. Marcello loses his temper when his old flame, Musetta, walks by with Alcindoro, her companion his upper-class impatience drives her to make an outrageous scene. Outside Café Momus, last-minute Christmas shopping is in progress. From the street below, Rodolfo’s friends call out for him to hurry up he promises to join them with Mimì. Rodolfo revives her and helps her to look for the key she has dropped in the darkness, their hands touch. It is Mimì, a neighbour, who is so weak that she faints. They manage to avoid paying and set off, leaving Rodolfo behind to finish an article. Just as they are about to leave, the landlord arrives with a demand for rent. He proposes that they celebrate at the Café Momus. Their friends arrive: Colline, despondent that he has failed to sell any books, and Schaunard, triumphant with money and food and wine. Marcello, a painter, is trying to create a monotype in the extreme cold of a studio he shares with Rodolfo, a writer Rodolfo volunteers to warm them both up by burning the manuscript of his play. The action is set in Paris during the early 1930s.
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