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Franka, a Warsaw prostitute, is wounded with a knife by a pimp. She ends up in the hospital, where the doctor caring for her, who wants to help her break with her past, offers her a job as a maid in the countryside. Desiring to forget the torments of her past life, the girl agrees. In the countryside she meets Pawel, a simple country boy whom she seduces. The infatuated Pawel, to whom Franka reveals her past, marries her. However, the monotonous rural life bores Franka, longing for a big-city life, and when Pawel leaves for a few days, she escapes with a man she meets casually to Warsaw, where she leads the life of a cabaret chansonist. After a few years she returns, bringing with her an illegitimate child. Pawel forgives her and takes her back under his roof. But this is not the end of Pawel's ordeal....
general audience, movie lovers
ex prostitute, sex worker, part-talkie
France
asFranka
asPawel
asGelba
asvillage headman
aschauffeur
aspeasant
asa dancer in a dance show at a restaurant
ashousekeeper on the estate
asSpinner (uncredited)
as(uncredited)
asCook at the estate (uncredited)
asServant on the estate (uncredited)
asOwner of a restaurant in Warsaw (uncredited)
asChild (uncredited)
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