The film presents a detailed and revealing account of an impoverished family’s fight for survival in Vienna following World War I, around the beginning of the 1920s. The degree of their hardship nearly leads Greta Garbo ("Greta") to consider selling herself just to feed her family; it undeniably pushes her toward minor offenses. To be frank, this rather bleak and realistic story from Hugo Bettauer—who also authored "…