- A timid and clumsy young man is looking for a room through newspaper ads. A young lady answers his phone call. When he arrives to the apartment with his suitcase, he finds the young lady in the company of a baby girl entrusted to her by her brother. Soon, another young man arrives wearing trendy sunglasses and with a bold behavior which contrasts with the shy demeanor of the first one. They each try to entice the young lady. One maneuver tried by the bold guy is the cigarette/steam locomotive trick later to be seen in Jules et Jim. The shy young man tries his luck again, but finally they both give up. Together they leave the apartment and the young lady who is shown both relieved and disappointed. This short film was disowned by Truffaut, but it can be considered a prelude to the "love trio" theme found in several later films by Truffaut.—bollermeister
- A young boy (Francis Cognany) is looking to rent a room via the classified ads. We see him telephoning from a booth. He arrives at an apartment occupied only by a young girl (Laura Mauri). In the hallway, he trips over his suitcase and falls flat on his face, on the floor. The young girl laughs. The young man moves in. Later in the afternoon, the young girl receives a visit from her brother-in-law (Jean-José Richer), who has come to drop off his little girl so that she can be watched over the weekend (Florence Doniol-Valcroze). Taking advantage of his stop at the apartment, the brother-in-law clowns around and attempts in vain to flirt with the hostess. The brand new tenant, perhaps more sincerely than the brother-in-law, also tries his luck, clumsily, with the young girl and is likewise rebuffed. He puts his clothing back in his suitcase and leaves the apartment at the same time as the brother-in-law. Night falls on Paris, Place Blanche is shrouded in darkness. The young girl puts her niece to bed, closes the curtains and sits down, pensive, on the edge of her bed.
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