[3][4] A man returns home from work and counts his money before retiring to bed.
On his rooftop, we see the silhouette of two thieves using a rope to descend into an attic full of rats.
While he is away, the thieves manage to descend into his room and steal his belongings and money, placing them in a sack.
In The Ciné Goes to Town, Richard Abel describes Gaston Velle's trick films produced between 1904 and 1905 for the Pathé Frères Film Company as using a large variety of trick effects while maintaining focus on a single cinematic device.
The uploaded title offers a modified story with a final chase scene where the thieves are apprehended.