Ruth Chatterton ends the Warner Bros.' phase of her illustrious film career on a high note - elevating what could have been a lurid melodrama into a sensitive, underplayed and compelling character study. In this adaptation of the Jacques Deval drama Une Vie Perdue, Chatterton plays Fran�oise, driven to despair by her Paris playwright husband, Paul (Adolphe Menjou), whose dalliance with his current diva, Odette (Claire Dodd), threatens to escalate from fling to full-fledged divorce. Discovering that there are no laws in Paris that could protect a loving wife from the whims of a vainglorious vixen, a fugitive felon (Noel Madison) gives Fran�oise surprising cover for a most desperate and deranged act. But cover cannot salve a guilty conscience, and Paul has the patience to wait for Fran�oise to do the right thing for soul and society. Fate, however, has shocking plans of its own for Fran�oise.