外表妖艳迷人、珠光宝气的年轻女子爱尔丝（Betty Amann 贝蒂•阿曼 饰）实则是一个珠宝小偷，她凭借自己的外表迷惑珠宝店老板的注意力，然后伺机行窃。但在某次行动时，她被珠宝店老板捉住，正值刚毅的巡警埃尔伯特（Gustav Fröhlich 饰）对爱尔丝进行认真的调查。爱尔丝使出浑身解数勾引面前的这名警察，最终埃尔伯特拜倒在她的石榴裙下，与之陷入爱恋之中。这也成为他们爱情悲剧的开始……本片荣获1931年日本电影旬报最佳外语片奖。

In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Clifford's false conviction for murder. Hepzibah, Clifford's sweet fiancée, patiently waits twenty years for his release, whereupon Clifford and his former cellmate, abolitionist Matthew, have a certain scheme in mind.