A few days later, Madame Corban returns home accompanied by a local priest, but Daniel is stunned by her appearance and refuses to recognize her as his lawful wife.
Complications arise when a drunken artist nicknamed "Papa Merlush," who was a random witness at Daniel and Elizabeth's wedding, unexpectedly appears.
Ultimately, Daniel loses control and confesses that the real Elizabeth is dead, revealing that her body is in a mountain stream in the Chamois forest.
In the finale, the police commissioner reveals that he orchestrated the entire scenario as a staged performance to elicit Daniel Corban’s confession to his wife's murder.
[3] Aleksandr Kolbovsky of Sputnik kinozritelya praised the actors' performances, but still found them generally lacking a French style, and concluded that the film is "unpretentious, but entertaining and even at times fascinating".