The hero of the novel Casino, Alain Pipe, a young clerk with the habits of a playboy, discovers thanks to a bank computer error a fabulous sum in his poverty-stricken account. Knowing that he will lose this unexpectedly fallen wealth as soon as the mistake is uncovered, the newly made millionaire hastens to live for his own pleasure. At the famous casino on the Mediterranean Côte d’Azur, the young rake loses his entire fortune with astonishing carelessness, which instantly raises him in the eyes of the local “beau monde” to unattainable heights. And then mad money begins to pour in a stream toward the recent pauper…