An Irishman heads to Australia to seek his fortune, where he meets a woman from his past who is now married to a man deported for killing her brother. As he tries to help her deal with depression and alcoholism, he discovers the dark secrets that drove her from her home. Alfred Hitchcock's period drama, starring Ingrid Bergman, Michael Wilding, Joseph Cotten and Margaret Leighton.

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that binds them, struggle to rebuild their lives when a young newcomer stirs long-buried passions and secrets.