The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

• Vicomte de Noailles
• Gaston Modot
• Lya Lys
• Caridad de Laberdesque
• Max Ernst
• Josep Llorens Artigas
• Lionel Salem
• Germaine Noizet
• Duchange