A cheerful painter makes life impossible for a very serious girl.

A conflict arises when a girl whose father has died does not accept that her mother remarry.

A vile woman has a change of attitude and starts helping a scientist who deliberately infects himself to test the efficacy of a vaccine.

A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect.

A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.

A young man pretends to be his friends' aunt to solve certain problems.

To avoid imprisonment, a woman pretends to be crazy after killing the man who blackmailed her sister.

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.

An impostor pretends to be the mother of a blind man so he can manage his assets. But things are changing because of the arrival of the person who takes care of the blind.