A young English poet enters the Moulin Rouge, Paris sewer and the center of the new bohemian talents. Artist Toulouse Lautrec companions involve him in setting his avant-garde play, and Christian fell in love with the star cancan fatal beauty Satine. Their love (and the production of the play) interfere with the claims of the Duke, who wants to learn Satin. In a duel of poetry and the money suddenly intervenes death.