朗治（瑞奈·列费夫尔 René Lefèvre 饰）在一间印刷厂里做了一辈子的文员，撇开正式职业不谈，他还有一颗成为作家的心，常常在业余时间创作漫画和小说。一天，朗治的老板因为贪腐诈骗的罪行东窗事发选择了跑路，却在路上遭遇车祸下落不明，为了维持印刷厂的正常运作，朗治被推举成为了印刷厂的临时管事人，在朗治和其他员工们的努力经营之下，本来濒临倒闭的印刷厂不仅避免了关门大吉的命运，还有了不菲的盈利。
一天，老板巴尔塔（朱尔·贝里 Jules Berry 饰）忽然出现在了朗治的面前，大难不死的他不仅企图侵吞朗治和工人们的所有劳动成果，甚至想要将朗治的女友据为己有。

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.

When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different ways, they begin to die as predicted...