Eugène Sue

Главный герой фильма — Родольф де Сомбрей. Ему противостоит злодей Лансиньяк. У Родольфа есть подруга Ирэн, которая несколько колеблется между честным, но не сказочно богатым Родольфом и бесчестным Лансиньяком. Однажды, участвуя в уличной гонке на каретах, он наезжает на старого бедняка. Бедняк оказывается жив и говорит, что не пострадал. Родольф даёт ему свой кошелёк с деньгами. В дальнейшем пропадает дочь бедняка Мари. В деле замешана злая Сова. Родольф пытается спасти девушку, попадая в различные неприятности — козни ему чинят Лансиньяк, Сова и их помощники-бандиты.

Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt.

Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.

Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.

Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.