The daughter of a bourgeois family is seduced, pregnant and dragged into a seedy environment.

Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.

A provincial postman shares with the inhabitants of a small town the joys and sorrows caused by the correspondence he delivers.

A store clerk, a detective, the robbery of a necklace and a murder.

Three young men leave the orphanage where they grew up to make their ways in the adult world.

A man devotes his life to gambling to try to alleviate the pain that an impossible love has caused him.

A young woman falls asleep at the gates of an old farm; in her dream she is transported to another century where she suffers for love.

An Italian immigrant accumulates wealth for their children, all consider him a miserable, until one day one of her children gives a very big disappointment and dies of a heart attack. Their children begin to spend the fortune he had amassed his father.

Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.

Upon learning that he has two months to live, a man distributes his fortune among his pensioners, over time he is still alive and has been left without a penny.

Two girls without blood relationship but physically the same. One is shy and educated, the daughter of a good class marriage and the other is a very clever orphan but with terrible manners who lives in a kind of shelter.

Following in the footsteps of a woman, a young farmer travels to the city and there he ends up triumphing as a singer on a radio.