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Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to the wretched Adele. By chance, he meets Lucienne, 'Lulu', and makes her his mistress. He thinks he has finally found love, but Lulu is a streetwalker, still in love with her pimp.
A chamber pot manufacturer tries to impress a military official while his wife desperately tries to force their constipated young son to take a laxative, leading to chaos.
Thomas is a young man who rebels against society after witnessing his father's suicide. He embarks on a marginal and increasingly violent existence with Malvina, a woman he meets, as they attempt to escape societal pressures. Their journey ultimately leads to their internment in a mental asylum, a bleak outcome reflecting their futile struggle for individual freedom.
Adaptation for TV of the Jean-Jacques Varoujean play.