​​​​​​​Susan Evans Grove

If you accidentally make a left you’d better mind your own business.

Driving home from a dinner party one night Robert (La Rocque) and Julia (La Treque) make a turn down an unfamiliar street where they see a man stuffing a body in the trunk of a car. They quickly turn the car around and think they are safe until a knock on the door comes later that night. They open the door to find Julia’s scarf tied in a knot on the doorstep. Assuming she had left the scarf at the dinner party Julia phones the hostess the next day to thank her for returning it. She is surprised and perplexed that the hostess knows nothing about it. 

Mysterious belongings continue to arrive on their doorstep until finally they go to the police with their story. The police want to know why they didn’t report it the night they saw the body. When they begin to relentlessly question Robert he realizes that he is now a suspect. 

Julia’s ruse as a loving wife is slowly revealed when we learn that she is the one leaving the items on their doorstep and the man stuffing the body in the trunk is her lover who has killed his wife with the plan of framing Robert. A plan that Julia helped hatch.

The timing of the film represents the long awaited conclusion of World War II and director Oscar Premier’s feelings of betrayal by his once beloved Deutschland. Although his road is lined with golden Oscars we can sense Premier’s exile is bittersweet.