[Machine Translation] Philip Marlowe, a detective, is summoned by a wealthy retired general, Sternwood, to investigate a large bill being paid by his second daughter, Carmen (Vickers), to a bookstore owner, Geiger. He discovers that Geiger has been taking pictures of Carmen, who is a sex-crazed woman with occasional psychosomatic breakdowns, but is soon murdered by someone, and Carmen is left standing at the scene...