Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage…

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.