The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Gaston Modot
as The Man
Lya Lys
as The Woman
Caridad de Laberdesque
as Marquise' Chambermaid / Girl at Blangis' Castle
Max Ernst
as Bandit Leader in the Hut
Josep Llorens Artigas
as Governor
Lionel Salem
as Duke of Blangis
Germaine Noizet
as Marquise of X
Duchange
as Orchestra Conductor
Bonaventura Ibáñez
as Marquis of X
Jean Aurenche
as Bandit (uncredited)
Jacques Brunius
as Passer-by in the Street (uncredited)
Luis Buñuel
as (uncredited)
