La Habañera embraces a Scandinavian woman’s foreign affair, a romance with an exotic landscape, a seductive song, and a Latin lover. After Astrée goes astray and surrenders to a reckless moment, her paradise quickly loses its luster as she becomes a veritable hostage, bound to a tyrant who torments her. Her only solace is her young son, with whom she imagines life back in the snows of Sweden. La Habañera is a consummate example of Nazi cinema’s own foreign affair: its conscious attempt to appropriate the Hollywood melodrama for domestic audiences.