The story takes place in the young jet set milieu.The ball,which opens the movie,shows a posh world.
Two sentimental young people are about to marry cause if money cannot buy happiness and if it can't buy love either,it contributes to them nevertheless .
The girl thinks that her mother is dead but she is not.Worse,her soon-to-be mother-in-law (Gabrielle Dorziat) discovers it and as the prodigal mother is a rambler and a gambler,whose fortune quickly dissipates ,helped by a good-to-nothing old beau (Jules Berry). "Your mother does not like me" says the bewildered fiancée to her rather indolent squeeze .
Melodramas can be great ,even if they are like this one rather reactionary.This one is not :the scene when the mother meets again her daughter (she passes herself off as her mother's good friend) was filmed so many times-Bette Davis notably- it can't generate any interest .
