Cynara is a 1932 American pre-Code romantic drama film about a British lawyer who pays a heavy price for an affair.

In Naples, disgraced London barrister James "Jim" Warlock prepares to part from his beloved wife Clemency and start anew in South Africa.

His friend John Tring thinks Jim needs “color” in his life and laughs at him for being "the last of the virtuous men".

Jim is crestfallen when Clemency informs him that she has to take her sister Gorla to Venice for a month to get her away from a parachute jumper, the latest in a string of unsuitable men with whom she has fallen in love.

At the restaurant, a young shopgirl named Doris Lea in the next booth dons Jim's bowler hat on a dare from her friend and flatmate Milly Miles.

When the coroner asks if Doris had any prior relationships, Jim protects her privacy and refuses to answer, even though she told him of an earlier liaison.