In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.
After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man.
