1940년 6월 남프랑스의 농촌 마을에 파리에서 피난오다 공습으로 부모를 잃고 죽은 강아지를 안고 헤매던 소녀 폴레트는 근처 어느 농가에 들어선다. 그곳은 전쟁과는 아무 상관이 없다는 듯 평화롭고 한적한 곳이었다. 그 농가의 아들 미셀은 고아가 된 폴레트를 불쌍하게 생각하고 자기 집으로 데려와 미셀과 함께 강아지를 묻어준 뒤 무덤에 십자가를 세워준다. 살아있는 것이 죽었을 때는 이렇게 묻어주는 것이라고 알게 된 뽈레트는 새든, 벌레든 죽은 동물을 모아 무덤을 만들고 십자가를 세워준다. 무덤은 점점 늘어가고 십자가가 더욱 많이 필요해지자 미셀은 교회 제단에 놓여진 십자가를 훔치려 하고, 거기에 그치지 않고 형의 묘지에서 뽑아온다. 그러던 어느날, 고아수용소로 데려가기 위해 적십자의 조사반이 파견나온다. 이때 아버지는 미셀과 십자가가 있는 장소를 알려주면 폴레트를 그들에게 넘기지 않겠다는 약속을 하지만, 결국 이를 어기고 폴레트는 조사반에 넘긴다. 미셀은 폴레트를 위해 아름답게 만들었던 방앗간의 묘지를 모두 망거뜨리며 울분을 터뜨린다. 한편, 전쟁 고아라는 딱지를 붙이고 혼잡한 정류장 대합실 구석에 서 있던 뽈레트는 어디선가 미셀이라고 부르는 소리를 듣고 계속 미셀과 엄마를 외치며 군중들 속으로 사라진다.
Le jeune acteur
A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
Oscar (uncredited)
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
Toni (uncredited)
1900년의 빈. 이야기꾼의 해설에 의해 윤무처럼 돌아가는 가지각색 사랑의 모습이 묘사된다. 매춘부 리오카디는 젊은 군인 프란츠를 사랑하고 있다. 그녀는 그를 억지로 유혹하려고 하지만, 프란츠는 가련한 하녀 마리를 속여 순결을 빼앗는다. 하녀의 젊은 주인 알프레드는 바람둥이 소설가로 먼저 그녀를 상대로 연애방법을 시험해 본 후 상류층 유부녀 엠마를 유혹하는데 성공한다.
아르투르 슈니츨러의 희곡을 영화화.
Caddy
Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Arsene, the telephone operator
Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the nurse he marries, proves to be a shrew. One day, a miracle happens : Michèle, a young orphan and fellow-worker gradually develops tender feelings for him. But will Robert be able to overcome his mediocrity and grasp this unexpected opportunity to find happiness?
Léopold
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her husband, the day she marries him. Bad beginning for the couple... As the marriage is not consummated for years, Minne feels frustrated and tries to find elsewhere the carnal knowledge she does not find at home. But Antoine is a kind-hearted man and on the occasion of a trip, a sexual balance is at last found between the two partners.
Germain
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
Rousseau
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Doudou
The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
