la carne e l'anima (1935)

in the hungarian cabaret 'odalisk' the main star and lookout is fired after an argument with the owner of the premises. the woman, without a job, through a friend, tracks down the father who had abandoned her as a child and who is now the stationmaster of a small city and goes to him. here he meets a young machinist, he falls in love with her, but their relationship is put in serious danger by the owner of the cabaret who, having found her, demands a large sum from the young woman and describes her in the eyes of all as a woman of malice. the woman, desperate, tries to kill herself but the young machinist, after having beaten the delinquent, joins her declaring that for him the present is important and that the past is far away.