This is one of several films that can be traced back to Eugene Brieux's play Les Avariés (translation: "The Damaged") and Upton Sinclair's novelization of that play entitled "Damaged Goods." Some of the common plot elements among these films are a protagonist who is engaged to be married and who contracts a venereal disease from a prostitute shortly before his wedding (often during a night of debauchery urged on by his work colleagues or his closest friends), the protagonist confiding in his best friend about the disease and then discussing it with a physician, attempts to medically treat the disease, a sexual affair between the protagonist and his best friend's wife or girlfriend, and the impacts of all of this on the protagonist's engagement and marriage.
