Claude Rains, playing “Mr. Popinga,” finds out his boss (Herbert Lom) has been manipulating financial records to ruin the company so he can run off to Paris with another woman. After witnessing his employer destroying important documents, a confrontation occurs by a canal that ends badly. Instead of Lom fleeing, it's Rains who goes to Paris, where he encounters the woman in question (Märta Torén), who isn’t very conv…