Mrs. Dubedat loves her artist husband, Louis, but he is dying of tuberculosis. She goes to a doctor and convinces him to save her husband. The doctor can keep only 10 cases patients, and must choose who is worth saving, but is convinced that Louis' artistic talents make him worthy. But when he met several of his colleagues ftor meet Louise , they discover that he is in fact a smooth-talking, money-grabbing scoundrel. They also learn that he has another wife, whom he has abandoned her . So, the doctor has a problem: should he let Louis die, leaving Mrs. Dubedat with her idealized image, or save him and his artistic talents, but force her to face his bigamy and other flaws?