Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Greta Garbo
as Zara, a.k.a. Maria
Melvyn Douglas
as Count Bruno Varelli
Erich von Stroheim
as Carl Salter
Owen Moore
as Tony Boffie
Hedda Hopper
as Ines Montari
Rafaela Ottiano
as Lena
Warburton Gamble
as Baron
Albert Conti
as Captain
William Ricciardi
as Pietro
Roland Varno
as Albert
Reginald Barlow
as Dr. Reinhardt
Max Barwyn
as Cafe Headwaiter
