The book of the wonderful American novelist John O'Hara, written in 1935, is about the life catastrophe of a young woman who is indecipherable in love affairs. This novel, extremely vivid and emotionally saturated, is the basis of a film with Elizabeth Taylor in the lead role, who won her first Oscar for it. The story of the haunted, spiritually crippled beauty Gloria Wenders, whose only entertainment is casual liaisons with wealthy men she barely knows, even today reads like it was written yesterday.