“After the unsuspected success of Stützen der Gessellschaft (Pillars Of Society), Sirk was presented with a highly melodramatic project by UFA: a beautiful young woman (Maria von Tasnady) hires herself as a nurse to the family which has adopted her own son (Peter Bosse). Sirk's first full-blown melodrama shows him intensifying the conventions of the genre: Beethoven, clairvoyants, suicides, courtroom drama all contribute to the emotions in which Sirk ruthlessly implicates his audience....”