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In French-controlled Algeria, the miserly caïd Aboul-y-far offers his daughter Fathma to the hairdresser Birotteau in exchange for a supposed protective talisman, overlooking Birotteau’s engagement to Virginie. The caïd’s steward encourages Fathma’s romance with drum-major Michel, and the complications end with the talisman revealed as a baldness-curing pomade. Virginie and Birotteau marry, as do Fathma and Michel, while the caïd regrets the expense.
Coraline, a former Paris opera singer unhappily married to retired bullfighter Don Belflor, meets her old admirer Tracolin in Barcelona. They exchange letters, and Tracolin enters the house after rescuing Belflor from attackers. Tracolin says he is arranging a meeting between Belflor and the dancer Caritéa, but gives him Coraline’s letter. Coraline mistakes her husband’s confusion for evidence that her own affair is exposed. Tracolin later explains Belflor’s infidelity with Caritéa. Belflor admits it and begs forgiveness; Coraline accepts if she can keep Tracolin as her lover, and Belflor agrees.
In French-controlled Algeria, the miserly caïd Aboul-y-far offers his daughter Fathma to the hairdresser Birotteau in exchange for a supposed protective talisman, overlooking Birotteau’s engagement to Virginie. The caïd’s steward encourages Fathma’s romance with drum-major Michel, and the complications end with the talisman revealed as a baldness-curing pomade. Virginie and Birotteau marry, as do Fathma and Michel, while the caïd regrets the expense.
Coraline, a former Paris opera singer unhappily married to retired bullfighter Don Belflor, meets her old admirer Tracolin in Barcelona. They exchange letters, and Tracolin enters the house after rescuing Belflor from attackers. Tracolin says he is arranging a meeting between Belflor and the dancer Caritéa, but gives him Coraline’s letter. Coraline mistakes her husband’s confusion for evidence that her own affair is exposed. Tracolin later explains Belflor’s infidelity with Caritéa. Belflor admits it and begs forgiveness; Coraline accepts if she can keep Tracolin as her lover, and Belflor agrees.