Lifting Shadows

Directed by Léonce Perret

With Emmy Wehlen, Stuart Holmes, Wyndham Standing, Julia Swayne Gordon and Rafael Bongini

Vania is a political refugee who travels from Russia to the United States. But even in America, she is pursued by assassins known as "the Ring of Death" because she carries certain papers given to her back home by her father. She marries a man who turns out to be a drug addict, and in a heated argument, she shoots him. A young lawyer defends her, then falls in love with her.