Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
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.
The tumultuous relationship between a street singer and a prince.