p 　　Claudie, a young French woman, inherits her uncle 三九 s property in Algeria, much to the disappointment of her scheming cousins Diane and Manuel On the ferry she meets and falls for Pierre, an idle young man who has squandered his inheritance and is on his way to beg from Christian, his rich but rough-and-ready uncle, who owns a neighbouring farm to Claudie 三九 s Made to work on the farm by Christian as a loan condition, Pierre is soon a changed man, and proposes to Claudie But when his Arab friend Zoubir invites the Europeans on a hunting party, Diane and Manuel see their chance to move against their cousin p