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This film follows a pair of earrings as they change hands during a series of betrayals and romances. A French general presents his wife with the pricey jewelry, but she is forced to sell the earrings after she runs into financial trouble. When the general sees them in a shop, he secretly purchases them back for a woman he is having an affair with. Then, after a gambling loss, she pawns them, and an Italian aristocrat buys them for a special Frenchwoman.