An impoverished painter and his rival engage in a race across Paris to recover a jacket concealing a winning lottery ticket.

Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. To make things worse, when he is embracing the woman whose portrait he is painting, he is surprised by his indignant fianc?e B?atrice. Suddenly, Michel learns that he holds the winning ticket in the Dutch Lottery. But when he goes to retrieve the ticket from the pocket of his jacket, he finds that B?atrice has given the jacket to a stranger who was in need. Now everyone has a keen interest in finding that jacket.