The Carnival
Jerome, a rising young artist, tired of his wife's frivolity, demands that she devote more time to her home and baby. Fifine persists in choosing the company of her gay friends, thus the relations of the couple become strained and Jerome with their baby, departs for Italy, to forget his shattered happiness. After several years of wandering, Jerome returns to Paris. Leon, a mutual friend of Jerome and the wife, induces Fifine to attend the mask ball, where the separated husband and wife are brought together. Although a reconciliation does not take place, Fifine is humbled and chastened and surreptitiously enters her husband's home in an effort to see the little one she has not caressed for years; at sight of the child she realizes that her husband and child make up her happiness.
