Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Robert Shaw slaughters his wife’s lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.

A murderer and his girlfriend on the run from the police arrive at a cafe-hotel where they are recognized, so the woman tells the customers the story behind his crime.