Through a complex series of flashbacks, The Locket explores the life of a jewel-obsessed kleptomaniac (Laraine Day). The story of her first marriage to an artist (Robert Mitchum), is told by her second husband--a psychiatrist (Briah Aherne) who is clearly out of his depth with the case of his own wife--to her prospective third husband. Consciously Freudian in its approach, The Locket's source of continuing fascination lies not in that per se, but in its pattern of narrative construction (even now in the realm of the avant-garde) which mirrors the heroine--a chronic and disarming liar. Errol Morris writes, “Here, temporal disorder triumphs. Flashbacks within flashbacks within flashbacks. Does the flashback provide an explanation for action or does it avoid an explanation of action? Here, each revelation of the past renders the present more opaque.”