By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.

1941 film by Christian-Jaque

Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer and essentially innocent, there does not seem to be very much that Albert can do to convince others of the truth.

Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.

At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.