A New York fashion model finds herself being pursued by a poor but honest garage mechanic and a rich philanderer.
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.
