Summary
Anatol Spencer, velvet-clad Manhattanite, flits through speakeasies and silk-draped drawing rooms convinced that marriage is merely the first draft of a more scintillating manuscript. He rewrites the narrative by installing his dewy childhood flame Emilie in a rose-petal boudoir, only to discover that she treats fidelity like a disposable accessory. Pivoting, he drifts toward Annie, a fragile nightclub moth dabbing iodine on her wrists, offering solace that ends when she rifles his pockets and vanishes into the gas-lit fog. Each conquest becomes a cracked mirror; the film’s mosaic of candlelit waltzes, champagne hangovers, and 5 a.m. confessionals traces a man circling the drain of his own illusions while the women pirouette toward self-possession.
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Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
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