Danielle Darrieux stars as a frivolous woman who is transformed by love, even as it drives her to surrender all the comforts to which she is deeply attached. The story is ingeniously organized around the circulation of a pair of earrings, a present given to the title character by her husband. This device perfectly expresses Ophuls’ vision of love and desire as a kind of exchange within a network of power relations whose circularity is revealed by the brilliant travelling shots executed by Ophuls’ moving camera, kinetic sequences that poignantly capture the obsessive dominion of romantic love.