[1] [2] It is based on the 1910 play Le Costaud des Épinettes by Alfred Athis and Tristan Bernard, which had previously been adapted into a 1923 silent film.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean Perrier.

He is put in touch with Doizeau a man, for reasons of his own, wants someone to kill the music hall performer Irma Lurette.

Desperate, Brezin takes on the assignment in exchange for twenty thousand francs.

However instead of killing Irma he falls in love with her, and the two conspire together to swindle Doizeau out of his fee.