In the early fifties the portmanteau movie was still hanging around; it came in several formats; the easiest was to adapt short works by noted writers, Maugham, O'Henry, Maupassant, etc. La Ronde was one variant on this using a common theme and different actors for each episode. Souvenirs perdus linked four stories via items in a Lost Property office and so on. Carlo Rim's take on the genre was to have several episodes linked via a housemaid who recalled her various employers and although top billing went to Danielle Darrieux she only appeared in one episode whilst the actual lead was Etchika Chourea as the housemaid. Though she appeared in just short of twenty films during her career Chourea failed to sec the screen alight or even cause s spark but she acquits herself well in what turns out to be a more than pleasant divertissement.