Robert Ivonnet

Na década de 40, Hélene, uma mulher da alta sociedade, é abandonada pelo amante e para se vingar, convence a prostituta Agnes a seduzí-lo e fazê-lo se apaixonar. Porém, ele acaba se casando com a mulher e Hélene resolve contar o passado de Agnes.

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.