[3] [4] It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris and on location in Normandy including around Eure.

It was a sizeable box office hit, being the seventh most popular film of the year in France.

[5] A circle of a small town's older ladies decide to award a prize for virtue for a young woman with an unblemished reputation.

When it turns out nobody in the settlement qualifies, they instead award it to Isidore an idiotic and bashful young man with a fear of the opposite sex.

However when Isidore encounters and spends the night with a countess, who sits on the board giving out the prize, he is suddenly transformed into a worldly figure who returns to the town in triumph.