Guards are posted to protect various important figures who are threatened with a phone call, that by 10 p.m. the following night they will be dead.Somehow they still meet their deaths, despite the protection.

A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War breaks out. A series of circumstances will lead the scientist to change his way of thinking about values ​​and principles that until then he had as immovable.