Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.

A tramp, a vagrant, returns twenty years later to the village where he had seduced a young girl. He forces her father to marry her off.