Mysteries of Paris

Paris, 1842: An accident occurs during a horse-drawn carriage race. Count Rodolphe de Sambreuil strikes the laborer Godin, who later dies from his severe injuries. Godin's widow and his daughter Marie are subsequently left destitute. While searching for work, the beautiful Marie mysteriously disappears. When the count learns by chance of the death of the laborer, who had refused to be taken to the hospital, he immediately seeks out his widow. She is now in prison, wrongfully accused of theft. Since the count feels responsible for her husband's death, he promises the widow to search for her daughter Marie, who has been missing for two months. Through his butler, who gathers information in the working-class neighborhoods, Sambreuil learns that Marie may be in the clutches of the "Owl," an evil old woman who forces young women into prostitution. Count Sambreuil then disguises himself as a bouncer and sets out into the city's underworld. With his charisma, strength, and courage, he manages to forge relationships and help others out of trouble. At the same time, in the company of hardworking people, the count discovers a world previously unknown to him-a world of kind-hearted, poor people and misery, but also of scoundrels and cruel schemes. Yet it is not only this world that poses a danger to the count. Although he manages to save Marie from prostitution, she is far from safe. For in the meantime, the unscrupulous Baron de Lansignac is hatching a treacherous plot against the count.