A male and a female get here in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers identify the man from the police's summary. His name is Amedee Lange, he killed Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine informs the whole story: Lange was a staff member in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, scamming each, attracting women employees of Valentine's washing ... Eventually he ran away to stay clear of encountering his financial institutions, and also the employees established a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is lesser that the summary of the ambience right before the Popular Front.