Plot Summary:Mrs. John Cleveland, victim of an overly-jealous husband, adopts a child but, fearing to bring it into her own household, furnishes another home for it, and places the little girl in charge of a nurse. Paul Horton, ex-convict and former sweetheart of Mrs. Cleveland, returns to the city and finds that his former nurse is the same woman who is caring for Mrs. Cleveland's child. Horton accuses her of leading a double life and demands money to keep the matter quiet. Her diamonds are given to him and he pawns them. The husband, finding the rings gone, places detectives on the trail. Finding that Horton has pawned them he shuns his wife. But Horton shows him a letter which proves that the child adopted by Mrs. Cleveland really belongs to her husband. Though the jealous husband had been unwilling to forgive, the loving wife grants forgiveness.
影片在情节和主题上都遵循了洛卡的原著,讲述一个少女勇敢追求真爱最终却结局不幸的故事,用悲剧来展现人性中的爱恋、欲望、背叛、仇恨等复杂情感,以此来表达作者对女人在旧时代中所受压抑和禁锢的同情,而这种同情放在一个清规戒律的伊斯兰国家里则更显其象征含意。年轻的准新娘在新婚前夕还纠缠于未婚夫显赫的家族和往日男友的爱怨之中,新婚当日她勇敢地选择了和前男友私奔,却引来新郎与自己真正所爱的人一决胜负,最后两人双双而亡,一场洁白的婚礼变成了鲜红的祭礼,只留下哀怨的新娘和痛楚的母亲继续承受着命运的折磨。