Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Old Caleb has a blind daughter who he lies to about disasters happening to keep her happy. By chance he finds his son who disappeared at sea, that the marriage of his ex-fiancée with the villainous Tackleton does not take place and that everything ends for the best in the world...
La Roussette
Virgínia é deixada sozinha após a morte de seu pai e de seu tio gastar toda sua herança em bebida. Ela é aceita por uma família de boêmios, mas quando se inicia um motim dos camponeses contra eles, a moça é forçada a fugir. Nesse momento, Virgínia é então ajudada pelo filho de um homem rico, que acaba se apaixonando secretamente por ela. Entretanto, quando tudo parecia ir bem, seu tio bêbado aparece e pode arruinar seu final feliz.
La rabbitzine Binnah
In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately mirrors the strife between the two powers, one surrounding Samuel, a devoted rabbi, and the other around Moïse, a talented money lender. Moïse becomes the king of petrol and ships to London with his niece Lia. Conflict continues and leads to the violent strike by oilworkers...
