A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

Scénario : D'après le roman d'Hector Turnbull The Cheat Denise Moret est allée rejoindre Pierre, son mari, en Mongolie où il travaille comme ingénieur du génie civil. Un soir elle perd beaucoup au jeu et emprunte de l'argent au prince Lee-Lang qui lui fait aussitôt des avances qu'elle repousse. Le prince se venge en sabotant le travail de Pierre et au cours d'une entrevue dramatique, Denise le tue. Elle est acquittée.

In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

1952 film by Max Ophüls