[1] It recounts how two families are drawn together by an engagement between two of their children, are then torn apart when the young couple fall out, and are finally reconciled.

It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location around the city and at Toulon.

Before parting for the summer vacation, the students Antoine Lartigue and Marie Malhouin decide to get engaged.

When they arrive, Émile as a phlegmatic Norman finds the endless bonhomie and bragging of the Provençal Adolphe increasingly annoying.

When in apprehension he knocks on Émile's door, he gets a frosty reception but at that point Marie rings home to say she is all right and with Antoine.