During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.

法国南部的一个小镇上，诺曼底苹果酒客栈的老板勒布瓦纳突然去世，这对全镇人来说都是一件不小的事，他们不光担心以后再也喝不到那里甜美的苹果酒，还在猜测着客栈未来的主人是谁，会是勒布瓦纳先生那个贪财的弟媳妇奥毕斯蒂娜？还是他的老实憨厚，甚至有些傻的侄子依波利特？
其实在勒布瓦纳先生去世之前，奥毕斯蒂娜便开始预谋得到他的客栈，因此她常常跑到客栈吆五喝六，一副女主人的样子。而依波利特平时却只会默不作声地干杂活。因此在律师宣布勒布瓦纳先生遗嘱的那天，所有人都没想到依波利特会获得全部的遗产。奥毕斯蒂娜更是气得要命，但当人们听到继承遗产的条件时，却都情不自禁地笑起来，因为布勒瓦纳先生要求依波利特必须在年底前取得小学的修业证书，否则将没有资格继承遗产。这对依波利特来说可不是件容易的事情，奥毕斯蒂娜也因此松了一口气，她坚信以依波利特的智商是不可能拿到修业证书的。
无奈依波利特重新走进了学校，和一群小自己二十几岁的孩子一同上课。玛特莱娜是小学校里的老师，她被依波利特的真诚所打动，主动要求为他补习功课。
眼看考试的日期就要到了，奥毕斯蒂娜看出依波利特一直在暗恋自己的女儿亚洛特，于是他骗依波利特说亚洛特也喜欢他，希望他在考试中故意出错，这样客栈就能作为他表达爱情的信物归亚洛特了。依波利特信以为真，故意在考试中胡乱地回答考官问题。然而就在奥毕斯蒂娜正在为自己的阴谋即将得逞而暗自窃喜时，学校却传来消息说依波利特通过了考试。原来他胡乱的回答却偏偏都阴错阳差地答对了。依波利特最终不但得到了客栈，还收获了来自玛特莱娜的真正的爱情。
精彩视点：这是一部轻松却又能发人深思的喜剧影片。由以主演《虎口脱险》而备受人们喜爱的法国著名喜剧演员布尔维尔主演。

Five prisoners ,a woman and four men,return to France after WW2.We follow their rocky road to life.It's a movie which consists of five different stories.Aunt Anna comes back from a concentration camp but her family is more interested in her money; Antoine becomes a waiter in a place commandeered by an English all-female regiment.A wounded German takes refuge in Jean's boarding-house ,he used to be a torturer.Louis,back from war,is feted but his wife has run away with a resistant fighter.René is welcomed by the mayor on the railway station platform ; but he's married to a German woman.

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre lacks of courage and ran away. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre ...

1945 film by Marcel Carné

The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.