G. W. Pabst's second film with Louise Brooks (after Pandora's Box) was ruthlessly attacked by the censors and suffered merciless cuts everywhere it was shown. The restoration of this fascinating film was an international effort involving many cooperating film archives, and mainly drawing on prints in three archives-the Cinémathèque Française, the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique, and the archive of SODRE in Montevideo, Uruguay-each print differently incomplete. The rediscovered scenes give us another Diary of a Lost Girl than the one we knew. Brooks plays a pharmacist's daughter, Thymiane, who bears a child out of wedlock and is shunted off to a hideously oppressive home for delinquent girls while her seducer is kept on as her father's assistant. She escapes and finds refuge in a brothel, where the madam's compassion and the milieu of overt sexuality make a striking and provocative contrast with the cruel hypocrisy of her bourgeois family. In the restored version, not only is the play of money and sex/capital and desire made explicit, but a comic spirit entirely missing from the known version emerges.