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 .