City Film Corporation

A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.

Resentful after an ugly divorce from her unfaithful husband, Judith McGuire moves to Los Angeles. Adrift and detached, she spends her days and nights wandering through her new city, cynically remarking on the hypocrisy, vanity and brutality of the modern world and humanity's alienation from themselves and each other.

The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.