A cabaret singer incites the man who loves her to perpetrate a burglary to avenge the one she loves and to whom the first has wronged. The case goes wrong but its instigator has time to confess before dying.

Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...

A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.

Sentimental and emotional problems for a certain Jean Mariole who can hardly really position himself between two mistresses.