The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis a Jesuit novice leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide which was provoked by Garigny who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin cashier of a bank was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.