Delivered by a miracle from a women's reformatory where she has been incarcerated for misbehaving, the relieved but unrepentant Susana escapes into the countryside. She is taken into the bosom of a wealthy landowner and his family, where she proceeds to wreak sexual havoc. In a recent New York Times review, Vincent Canby writes, “Though the movie means to be steamy, Buñuel is apparently more amused than shocked by Susana's brazen ambition and the no-nonsense way she goes about her conquests. Toward the end, when the traffic in and out of Susana's bedroom is fairly heavy, the movie has the manner of a grandly operatic farce.” Surrealist writer Ado Kyrou notes, “Finding himself saddled with a frightful melodrama replete with every known cliche, (Buñuel) attempted to demolish the idiocy by exaggeration.... The girl is too loose, the bourgeois too bourgeois, and Buñuel enjoys himself.... (Susana) is punished, but this ‘moral' ending is treated in so broad a fashion that one must really not know Buñuel at all to take it seriously.”