Madame X

Jacqueline Floriot (Chatterton) is thrown out into the street by her jealous husband. She is not even allowed to see their four-year-old son. Twenty years later, she has become the mistress of Laroque (Ullrich Haupt), a cardsharp. Desperate to shield her son from her disgrace, she shoots and kills her lover. By chance, the lawyer assigned to her turns out to be her own son.