Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his home town. His only moments of lights are his mother and his baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked he leaves his hometown and gets to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the Casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he now is free from all ties to his old live, decides to start a new one, and goes to Rome, where he rents a room in a pension full of fake spiritualists who are controlling the owner. The chief of the gang, Terence, wants to marry the owner's daughter Adrienne, and has convinced her father to give her to him, with no regards of Adrienne's feelings, who is in love with and loved by Mathias. When Terence steals Mathias 50,000 Lira, and Mathias, being officially dead can neither marry Adrienne nor denounce Terence to the police, he decides to do something about his state and travels home, just to notice that Romalinda has remarried... 译文(2): 马赛厄斯 · 帕斯卡，曾经富裕家庭的独子，娶了美丽的罗玛琳达，她有一个糟糕的婆婆。她控制着她的女儿，很快他的家庭生活变成了一场噩梦，他在家乡的工作也变成了图书管理员助理。他唯一亮的时刻是他的母亲和他的孩子，但都死在同一天。震惊之下，他离开了家乡，来到蒙特卡洛，在那里他在赌场赢得了一大笔财富。回到家，他在报纸上读到了自己的讣告。他们在一条小溪里发现了一具尸体，并将其与他的失踪联系起来。马赛厄斯注意到他现在已经摆脱了与以前生活的一切联系，决定开始一段新的生活，于是他去了罗马，在那里他租了一个房间，里面全是控制房主的假通灵师。黑帮头目特伦斯想娶老板的女儿艾德里安娜，并说服她的父亲把她交给他，完全不顾艾德里安娜的感受，她深爱着马赛厄斯。当 Terence 偷了 Mathias 五万里拉 Mathias 正式死亡后既不能和 Adrienne 结婚也不能向警察告发 Terence 他决定为他的州做点什么然后回家，只是为了注意到 Romalinda 再婚了..。
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