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- Russia: A group of 19th century nihilists wants to change the system in czaristic Russia. They point out that conditions for prisoners are horrendous.
- Jacob and Simon envy their brother Everhard, the girl Roze Kate is in love with him. When they discover their heritage will be confiscated when their mother remarries, they plan to kill her. Then Everhard is seen with the murder weapon.
- George is henpecked, and when the servant marches off indignantly George is compelled by his female belongings to do the servant's work. He prepares tea, but there is no milk; he is dispatched to get some. He arrives at the milk-shop, but coming out collides with a lady, whose attractions fascinate him. With the milk-can on his arm, he follows the lady to a café. There she joins friends, and George is made welcome in the jovial circle. Champagne passes freely, and the husband is very soon reduced to a deplorable condition. Finally he is turned out. Meanwhile, friends at home have called, and they are expecting George back with the milk. The police are sent for. They get on to one or two false scents, but finally discover George lying prone upon the pavement. Triumphantly they carry him home, when he proceeds to supply the party with the milk, but it has been so long on the road that by now the milk is sour, which brings upon him a severe matrimonial drubbing.
- Marguerite and Lolotte, accompanied by two Apaches, visit a cabaret, where Lolotte performs the Apache dance with Marguerite's lover. Marguerite, her rival, is arrested and sent to prison. She attempts to escape but is seen by a sentry. She exercises her arts upon him, endeavoring to persuade him to let her escape. He orders her back to her cell, but she is unable to return. Finally the irate man flings her from him, and as the night guard come in sight, shoots her. For this he is recommended for promotion.
- Renée isn't very happy in her marriage with colonel Brachart and starts a relationship with a young lieutenant.
- Jean-Marie Hardouin, once notorious for his iron grip he exerted on his family, spends the last of his days in a chair in his son's house. He sees his adulterous daughter-in-law plotting to murder her children and husband. Jean-Marie is mute and cannot warn his family. Eventually, he gathers his strengths and strangles the daughter-in-law.
- During his long and respectable career, the superintendent of police has taken the names and addresses of 999 couples charged with adultery. Just one case more is needed for him to be awarded the knight's cross of the Legion of Honour.