The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.
Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.
A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man but she's not prepared to accept it. She rebels and marries the poor guy. This young man has a cousin, who seems secretly in love with him but in fact we 'll never know what she feels. This...
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everything and replaces the suitcase with a similar one. The police do not understand anything, but the pretty girl promises to become honest like the one...
A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the king, he will be rehabilitated thanks to the intervention of a young girl whom he will marry.
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible. There, he discovers the belle, named Pearl, has a husband. Never mind such an insignificant detail, Olive tells himself as the dirigible takes off with a stowaway among the passengers. Unfortunately a storm breaks and the captain,...
Théodore Beudraves works at night in a hotel and sleeps during the day. His salary allows him (unbeknownst to his wife Rose) to pay for singing lessons to Gaby Beauchamp, his young friend. But she falls in love with her son, Darius Beudraves, and vice versa.
César and Achille, two industrial friends, take in an abandoned child and both claim the title of dad. Marcel, the company's accountant, meets Micheline, the young mother, and ends up marrying her. The child finds a real family.
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and...
Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
