The film, of which only a fragment is known to survive, centered on a drunkard whose family is saved from violence, and who finally is able to give up his alcoholism, thanks to a series of happy accidents.
His arriving there wakes up his sleeping wife and daughter; when they remonstrate him for his drunkenness, he reacts violently and pushes them both out of a window.
[3] The film imitates the realistic style that the rival French studios Pathé and Gaumont had begun developing, with considerable commercial success, in 1906.
It can be compared particularly to some of the films made by Pathé by Ferdinand Zecca, such as L'Alcoolisme engendre la Tuberculose (1905), L'Incendiaire (1905), and L'Assommoir (1908).
[3] The Good Luck of a "Souse" was sold by Méliès's Star Film Company and is numbered 1044–1049 in its catalogues.