Edmond Poussard

A great provincial lawyer is found murdered with a revolver shot in the red path that leads to his mistress's home. The Advocate General accuses his own wife who was a betrayed mistress and whom he assumes guilty out of spite. But the accused's daughter finds the real culprit.

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to avenge the death of their father.