Lucien Mancini

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.

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

The tumultuous relationship between a street singer and a prince.