A rich man's son has lived a dissipated life and has joined a circus where he shares the courageous and perilous lives of its artists. He falls in love with a young dancer and is loved in return by her. But their passion goes through many vicissitudes.

A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.

Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir.