Irving Rapper directs this classic drama starring Bette Davis and Paul Henreid. Charlotte Vale (Davis) endures a repressive regime in her Boston mansion, ruled over by her matronly mother (Gladys Cooper). Her sister (Ilka Chase) insists that Charlotte is sent to a sanitarium for the sake of her mental health and the opportunity to escape from the strictures of home allows Charlotte to blossom. During a cruise, taken as part of her cure, she meets the unhappily married Jerry Durrance (Henreid), and a passionate, if ultimately doomed, romance ensues.
