Claude Dayer, manager of a small travel agency, signs a contract with the firm of the powerful financial magnate Vidal. Vidal’s wife turns out to be Claude’s former secretary, whose trail he lost several years ago and whom he has been hopelessly in love with for six long years. She claims that Vidal made her his wife using hypnosis, and that she has no strength to resist him. The trusting Claude leaves the agency, takes a job with Vidal, to stay close and help…