Segment 1: The Spanking by Marguerite de Navarre: Old weaver'young and dissatisfied wife behaves badly to her husband's cousin, Marietta and has an affair with worker, Luke. Marietta makes a plan for revenge. Segment 2: The Pupil by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne: Uncle locks his teenage nephew in a room to take his possesions and flirts with the milkmaid who he also tries to persuade to marry the young boy. Segment 3: The Greenhouse by Guy de Maupassant: Old landlord, Gustave is after beautiful maid Celestine while he is very afraid of his dominant wife Jeanne. But Celestine wants baker's teenage son.