The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.

Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.

Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.

A silent, surreal short involving a man buying a pearl necklace. He meets a woman who also desires the necklace.

An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.

A silent, surreal short involving a man buying a pearl necklace. He meets a woman who also desires the necklace.

Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.

Ludivine, a lttle tomboy, takes on the too polite Delphin. Being caught, and punished, she wants him and his father to be dead. When the latter dies, she feels guilty and takes Delphin under her wing.