In the opening episode of anthology series Crime of Passion country girl Catherine feels that despite being married into a well to do family is looked down upon because of her upbringing – but is that enough reason to commit murder.
In this episode Maitre Saval has to defend the young lover of renowned middle aged singer Helene Jeygu.
In this episode Canadian writer Robert Bureau has found himself on trial accused of the murder of his secretary Celine Tallandier. He arrived in France with two failed marriages behind him and hoping to complete the research for a novel he is working on. Bureau hires Celine to type up his notes for him and he is soon smitten with her. Celine though is not as straightforward as she seems and Bureau becomes convinced she is hiding a secret from him.
In today's case Pierre Lombard has a contented life with his wife but when his mother dies he inherits a large amount of money. His new found wealth soon finds that he is suddenly attractive to a certain type of woman – one of whom, Marthe, Pierre finds hard to resist. The affair soon leads to murder…
In this episode things get out of hand when Nicole sets out to see how much power she holds over of her lover Edgar Bertot.
A man accepts plainly his crime and nothing can divert him from it.
Camille kills her lover as she discovers his intentions to marry someone else.
Celestina, a brave Partisan woman during the Spanish civil war, returns home to find her husband with his mistress. Brave patriot claims to have killed only her husband's body when she realized that his noble spirit was already dead.
A man is found in a room with his fingerprints all over a gun and the body of a dead woman at his feet.
A woman finds that her husband has a mistress.
The mystery of the Church intrudes into the logic of the courtroom when Daniel, a monk, is accused of murdering his sister-in-law, with whom he had once been in love. Prosecutor Lacan is puzzled by the apparent conspiracy of silence among his fellow monks.