Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants....
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman...
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office....