By the Window

Gaston nicknamed Pilou has left his native village and Yvette the girl of his heart to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter He is a naive goodnatured man who like most of his fellowworkers favors a little song or two while he works For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and when he does not sing to pass the time he looks through the windows observing the tenants in their daily lives As time goes by he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives In the end despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée he returns to her