A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.

Gaud Mevel, a young Paimpolaise brought up in Paris, falls in love with the rough sailor, Yann Gaos. When he knows she is an orphan and poor, he marries her. A few days later, he leaves for Iceland from where he will never return. The sea will take him back, jealous of his feelings.

A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.