菲利克斯（乔治·马沙尔 Georges Marchal 饰）从小就没有感受过母爱，这段悲惨的童年经历大大的影响了他的人生轨迹。某日，在一场盛大的晚宴上，菲利克斯邂逅了一位美丽的夫人，这位夫人的出现摄走了菲利克斯的魂魄，让他惶惶不可终日。
之后，菲利克斯得知这位美丽优雅的女士是居住在安得尔河畔的莫尔索夫人（德菲因·塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰），她的丈夫年迈而又脾气暴躁，孩子又体虚多病。莫尔索夫人不幸的遭遇让菲利克斯对她更加的着迷，他想方设法接近这一家人，并最终顺利的登堂入室。面对菲利克斯热烈的追求，恪守妇道的莫尔索夫人一味的闪躲，但她无法忽视自己内心蠢蠢欲动的欲望。

Ulysses offends the gods by blinding the Cyclops, so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them.

World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.