Doña Caridad
Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
La grand-mère
Chichinette (Blanche Montel) is in love with a playboy named Philippe (Jean Devalde). She follows him to Paris, believing his promise of marriage, only to come to her senses.
La Cognette
Состарившийся Пере Фуан, как и его пожилая жена Роза, больше не в состоянии работать на земле. Поэтому старик решает разделить свой земельный участок на равные части между детьми: одним сыном — безответственным Бюто, другим — пьяницей Гиацинтом и дочерью Фанни. Передачу земли Фуан осуществляет документом, по которому его дети, каждый в равной степени, должны выплачивать старикам небольшой пенсион, позволявший более-менее нормально существовать в оставшиеся им годы жизни. Между детьми начинаются соперничество и интриги.
Schoonmoeder Grietje / Mother-in-law Grietje
Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.
Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....
L'Arlésienne
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.