A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...

Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pomponnet is destined for her as a husband. But Ange Pitou is flighty and lets herself be seduced by Mademoiselle Lange who wanted to know the author of seditious couplets.

Prince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist Monique in Cannes.