Lucien Cazalis wrangles constantly with his mother-in-law. He decides to give her a fright by pretending to be a ghost and she seems to die. As he goes out to celebrate and buy a funeral wreath, it turns out she's all right. Cazalis has no such luck. The wreath gets swapped for a number of items, landing him in trouble with the police.
We're so used to thinking of Émile Cohl as one of the pioneers of animation, we forget that he sometimes directed live-action sequences in his movies, and one or two completely live-action films. This predictable comedy is enlivened a bit by Cazalis' mugging, but it's nothing special. Still, he was popular enough to abandon the character name and star in a series as "Caza".