Robert de Fabre

Poor Arlette is married off by her well meaning mother to a supposed count who turns out to be a fake and a crook.Arlette seeks out the real count, to whom in name technically she is married.

Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with René, a sailor who gave her a taste for life.