One night, after receiving a phone call from Marie, the woman he loves, Jean suddenly disappears without warning his brother.

While Mary and Harry enjoy their love story while going on with their respective dancer and singer careers, Jean is desperate.

At the same moment, his portrait hanging in Jérôme's house falls from the wall and he understands something terrible has happened to him.

Jerome is informed that a trunk with Jean's belongings has been found in a villa on the French Riviera which is being transformed into a hotel.

Jerome finds the letter left by Jean where he explains that he killed himself for the love of a cruel woman.

When he processes the film and recognises her, she understand their love is impossible and runs away and faints on the beach.

[3][better source needed] The film was restored in 2013 by the Cinémathèque Française using the nitrate negative kept in its archives.