A man on his way to visit his lady love trips an old man by accident. He makes no apologies and rushes on his way. Little does he know that the old man is a devil who will torment him as he tries his hand at courting.
It's a series of Melies-style transformations, like THE HAUNTED INN, but the simple act of transformation by stopping the camera, moving objects and people around, and then restarting the camera has become slightly old hat by this time. In Melies' works, there's no reason given for this tricks; they simply occur. Now a hint of a plot must be established, a framework for these wonders to occur in.