For Jérôme Crainquebille, a street vegetable vendor who has spent forty years on the streets of Paris, life consists solely of the sound of his handcart’s wheels rolling over the cobblestones. One day, a minor altercation with the police is enough to set the massive machinery of bureaucracy in motion against him. This drama, penned by Jacques Feyder, brings to the streets, in all its raw honesty, the silent and helpless crushing of an ordinary man by the law. Stepping away from the glittering halls of justice, it opens the door to a quest for justice that echoes in the shadowy corners of Paris.