After the comedy of the same name by O.Wilde.
Sir Chiltern, rising diplomacy star of the Great Britain, is fond of his wife. She is chary of faultless reputation of his husband. The well-being of the respectable family is endangered. Some lady blackmails the hero, threatens to publish a discreditable fact of his career start. They manage to bring to reason the bold-faced person.
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