La force de la vie

Jean Paoli recently betrothed to Evelyne Desprez his bosss daughter gets tuberculosis and has to go away to get rest and fresh air He leaves for Corsica and has to break his engagement He is then invited to his cousins wedding Catalina But the grooms father objects to the union A vendetta is declared and soon afterwards the groom is found dead on the road to Ajaccio murdered by Michel Catalinas father who then hides in the maquis Jean decides to join him there and his health gets better One day Michel is mortally wounded by the police and Jean learns that his father died too He Jacques and Catalina travel back to Paris so that his mother is not left alone He finds that Evelyne took a new fiancé Max Carlier who surrenders after a fight Evelyne and Jean get married