A schemer, a hypocrite, and a briber, Judge Squeez*em arrests Captain Constant and the sailor Remble on the basis of a false denunciation— for profit. But soon he himself gets “caught in the trap” while trying to seduce Constant’s fiancée, Ilarietta. With the help of the royal judge Worty, Ilarietta and the sailor Sotmor—one of the accused—expose Squeezem.