The hero of the novel "Casino" Alain Pipe, a young clerk with the habits of a playmaker, thanks to a bank computer error, discovers a fabulous amount in his miserable account. Knowing that he will lose the wealth that has so unexpectedly fallen upon him as soon as the mistake is revealed, the newly minted millionaire is in a hurry to live for his own pleasure. In the famous casino on the Cote d'Azur of the Mediterranean Sea, a young rake with amazing carelessness wastes all his fortune, which instantly raises him in the eyes of the local "beau monde" to an unattainable height. And crazy money flowed like a river to the recently poor man...