In this romantic melodrama, set in Paris, André, the son of a Baron, is set to marry Margaret (“pretty enough, although a little insipid”) when he becomes infatuated with Margaret's mother, Parysia, star at the Moulin Rouge. Rather than break his promise to Margaret (and rather than marry her), André attempts suicide.
William K. Everson observes:
“One could hardly find a more efficient illustration of the almost total domination of the best British late silents by German talent. The setting is European; the director, crew and cast are all largely German. There is not a frame of the film which suggests in any way that it is British: Slow, methodical, self-indulgent, it parallels exactly the best of the European and American films of that period that were making a dramatic last stand for the silent film, showing exactly what it could do as an art form, without worrying in the slightest about boxoffice response.” --W.K.E. (JB)