Un invité (uncredited)
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the agency, who is a childhood friend. She does her best to keep the young man away from the scams of his boss. However, the director, in love with Marcelle and jealous of Pierre, succeeds in trapping and ruining him. Marcelle will then denounce him to the police, but before being arrested he will kill her.
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks paying the price. After the drama that had thrown her in prison, she met a brave boy ready to make his life with her. Will the scandal separate them?
(uncredited)
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Un membre de l'association
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out.
un conseiller
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
Un prisonnier
정비공 출신이지만 장교로 진급한 마레샬 중위와 직업 장교인 볼디외 대위가 탄 비행기가 독일군 라펜슈타인 사령관에 의해 격추당한다. 볼디외와 같은 귀족계급인 라펜슈타인은 마레샬과 볼디외를 수용소에 보내기 전, 정중하게 식사에 초대한다. 수용소에 입소한 두 프랑스 군인들은 배우, 교수, 토지 측량기사 등 다양한 출신의 수감자들과 곧 친해진다. 특히 부유한 은행가의 아들인 로젠탈 덕분에 이들은 그에게 배달되어온 물품과 음식들로 초라하지 않은 수용소 생활을 영위한다.
A student at Lesueur
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
Aline's father encourages his daughter's extra-marital love affair with a rich Argentinian. Aline's husband meets a little dancer, Marie, who looks like his wife. Marie is the daughter of a former friend of Aline's father. The two young women perform a dance number, the Argentinian is ruined and the spouses are reconciled.
Doctor
A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.
Jacques
An exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
Peroda
A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.
Detective
The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
