The third in the series of films de luxe based upon incidents of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. Cosette will be found to be a worthy successor to The Galley Slave and Fantine. Although telling a complete story in itself, the action forms a continuation of the earlier releases. Jean Valjean has escaped from the galleys at Toulon and is supposed to have been drowned, but he is seen emerging from the sea and concealing himself in the thicket. He makes his way to the little village of Montfermeil, where, when eluding the police after the galley slave bad been recognized as M. Madeleine, the Mayor of his town, he buried the money be withdrew from the Paris bank. Provided with funds be makes his way to the inn of the Thenardiers, where poor little Cosette, the child of the dead Fantine, is the slave of the brutal innkeeper and his still more callous wife. Jean purchases Cosette’s freedom, but Thenardier repents his bargain and the letter given Jean by Fantine, to whom he had promised the release of her child, is produced. Jean hurries away with the child and makes for Paris, but here he is again recognized by Inspector Javert and is pursued by the police. He seeks safety in scaling the wall of the Convent of Little Picpus, and here he finds Fauchelevant, whom be bad befriended in the old days. The old man secretes him in the coffin prepared for the dead nun as the soldiers demand admittance. To evade suspicion old Fauchelevant accepts the proffered aid of the soldiers in burying the coffin, and though each spadeful of earth brings the cold sweat to his brow, he continues his task until the soldiers retire and he is able to break open the coffin and remove the insensible man.