After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and a statue is even prepared in his honor.
Misfortunes and disarray of the little clown Leroy who is upstaged by a comrade, Bertini, and sees himself abandoned by his girlfriend Ginette, preferring his collaborator to him.
Four classmates decide to perform a love song that their friend, Pierre, composed for Marie. Novac, another admirer of Marie, is murdered. Pierre suspects one of the four of being the killer, but incriminates himself, believing that Marie was in love with the killer.
