“Two worlds meet: in one, love is vice or a trifle (or business); in the other, love is salvation”; a mother and her daughter face each other in an art deco mirror. The modern melancholoy of Paris in the Thirties is written all over Françoise Rosay's face in this rich melodrama of love and class. Rosay plays the tough and tender Jenny, resilient demi-monde boss who keeps a man and, to impress her “serious” musician daughter, a commodious art deco apartment. As manager of Chez Jenny, a popular nightclub, she is the hefty yenta who fixes up wealthy men with pretty girls, for a price. Though the despair and decadence of Depression merrymaking is all around her, Jenny has an accepting, Cagney-like resistance. But she has a soft spot for two people: her daughter, and her man. When the two begin to slip away - together - one wonders if Jenny is not, after all, in the wrong world.