A student
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds the experience rewarding. He finds himself as well as new friends (true ones this time) and even love in the person of Colette.
Priest Dufrety
젊은 신부가 북부 프랑스의 어느 시골 마을 암브리코트에 사제로 부임한다. 그의 첫 부임지인 이 시골 마을에서 그는 성실함과 친밀함으로 신부의 의무를 다하려고 하지만, 마을의 외톨이로 남아있다. 이웃 사람들은 그를 이상하게 보며 배척한다. 그의 선배 신부는 사제 역할에 대한 충고를 해주지만 도움이 되지 않는다. 결국 그는 극도의 고립감과 상황을 개선시킬 수 없다는 무능력 때문에 자신의 믿음이 흔들릴 정도로 우울증에 빠진다. 설상가상으로 그는 몸에 병이 있어 자신의 믿음의 어려움을 더욱 가중시킨다. 그는 그런 심경들과 신에 대한 열정과 마을의 세속성을 모두 일기로 적기 시작한다. 한편, 이웃에 사는 백작 부인은 그와 토론하면서 신에 대한 증오심을 불태운다.
Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.
