在这部风尘双侠剧情/爱情片中,克莱奥是一个名流的私生女，为了维护家族的名声，她从小就被送去法国抚养，直到母亲去世，克莱奥才返回家乡。克莱奥的母亲因为没有名分，生前备受羞辱，克莱奥决定要不惜一切代价为母亲复仇，她打算嫁给一个富人，不再走母亲的老路，不想却遇见了来自德克萨斯的赌徒克林特，沉默寡言的后者让她一见倾心。现在，克莱奥必须在金钱与爱情之间做出选择。
On the death of her mother, the vivacious Clio Dulaine returns from Paris to her childhood home in New Orleans to seek revenge for the humiliation her mother suffered there from her father's wife's family. She also plans to marry a rich man to attain the status and respectability her mother never had, but falls for Texas gambler Clint Maroon instead. When he leaves New Orleans for the horse racing season at Saratoga Springs, she follows him there to seek her fortune - or someone else's.
