A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.

The story of a Antoine, a physician who, in 1888, was exiled to China due to his drug habit.

The police raid a brothel and a prostitute (Lina Romay) escapes into the countryside. The woman, Celestine, ends up at a rich folks house where she ends up sleeping with two of the servants who then get her a job as a maid.

A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

A chambermaid plots to climb the social ladder by marrying a wealthy man.

Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others ,particularly a ruined noble:he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist .