Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.

Les Berteaux petit bourg de Normandie en juillet 1839. Après la mort de sa première femme Charles Bovary modeste médecin de campagne épouse Emma Rouault la fille d'un de ses patients. Les Rouault sont de riches fermiers de la région dont l'unique enfant Emma a été élevée au couvent. Pour la jeune fille cette union ressemble à la promesse d'une belle ascension sociale. Mais dotée d'un tempérament romanesque et imaginatif Emma se lasse vite d'une vie conjugale monotone et ennuyeuse comme des médiocres ambitions de son mari. Pour la distraire, celui-ci l'emmène à une fête donnée dans un château. Cette trop brève incursion dans un monde de richesse n'a d'autre effet que de plonger Emma dans un profond état de mélancolie. Pour offrir à son épouse de nouvelles sources de distraction Charles décide de déménager dans un bourg plus important…

Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?

A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.