影片节选自莫里哀的著名戏剧《伪君子》,一个寻常的早上,贪婪的女管家蛊惑主人写赠于遗嘱,老人的外孙来看老人,老人看不起做演员的外孙将他拒之门外,为了让老人清醒,外孙于是假扮了一个电影放映人放映了《伪君子》。戏中戏开始于商人奥格的妻子艾米丽等待远行的丈夫回家...Young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.