At the ghetto gate, where the Jews are forced to check in at the folding tables for their housing assignments, Pfefferberg, with his attractive wife Mila (Adi Nitzan), is astonished to see hat his Jewish friend Goldberg has sold out - he has somehow made an agreement with the Nazi Gestapo to be granted a position of authority as a ghetto policeman: "I""m a policeman now, could you believe it? That""s what""s hard to believe.In front of her co-worker, he volunteers to work for her, flattering her ego:Betsy: And why do you feel that you have to volunteer o me?Travis: (smiling slightly) Because I think that you are the most beautiful woman I""ve ever seen.As she twists her collar, Annabelle contemptuously rebuffs and spurns Johnnie after he has been rejected as a soldier without allowing him any opportunity to explain." (The names of the main characters in the original novel were Walter Huff and Phyllis Nordlinger.) Both are duplicitous and callous lovers - a beautiful, shrewd, predatory and dissatisfiedfemme fatalehousewife (with blonde bangs and an enticing gold anklet) and a likeable insurance salesman...She""s not run after the way the other girls are because she""s poor and hasn""t any background.While primping at the front hall mirror, Alice voices her adolescent, fairy-tale romance expectations: "I hope I""ll meet someone tall and dark and romantic, someone I""ve dreamed of all my life.