A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.
