Everyone exchanges gifts to buy presents for their friends, so nobody gets what they want, and the lady in charge of exchanges at the store is anything but cheerful.
Loosely inspired by Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbrocker who abandons his middle-class life, his family, and his duties to start painting, as he has always wanted to do. He is from then on an awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.
A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.
