Pierre Prévert

A criminal is blackmailed into killing a dim poet, but both escape to the countryside together.

A hatter and his accomplice attempt to kidnap the son of Hollister, an American millionaire, by abducting him in a bag. However, they mistakenly kidnap Hollister himself instead. Hollister, bored with life, is actually delighted to be involved in the adventure.

Beginning at dawn, Paris makes its bread who all the people throughout the city who eats it, whether on the street or at stand, at student restaurants or with family. Bread and the furnaces they come from create a rhythm to the life of a city up until dawn...

A guideless old tour proprietor trumps his new-fangled rival by offering a genuine mystery trip. The takers are a crowd of eccentrics and dropouts from all backgrounds.