在这部魔鬼是女人喜剧/剧情/爱情片中,影片通过一系列片断回忆一位老人所迷恋的一位极其高傲的女性。故事背景是幻想中的西班牙狂欢节。在咖啡馆中，老人把经历对游行中遇到的年轻朋友娓娓道来，这位年轻人同样是个伤心人。尽管他发誓不会重蹈老人的覆辙，但是却依然对傍晚与情人的约会期待万分。
Film told in flashbacks of an older man's obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. The backdrop is SternbergÍs surreal and fantastic Carnaval in Spain. In a café the older man details his encounters with the heart breaker that his younger friend has only just met at the parade. Forewarned, the young man swears he will avoid the fate of his friend, but rushes all the same to his evening rendezvous. A dreamlike story of frustrated, lost romance, spoken in the past tense, never really resolved.
