In 1831, the new Governor arrives in Sydney, Australia, with his noble, but broken, Irish cousin Charles Adare (Michael Wilding). The next morning, Charles unsuccessfully goes to the local bank expecting to raise money to start a business, and he meets the powerful landowner Sam Flusky (Joseph Cotten), an ex-convict that has raised a fortune in the colony. Sam proposes a business with lands with him, and invites Charles to have dinner with him at his farm. Charles learns that Sam is not accepted by the local society, but he goes to the dinner party, where he meets Sam's wife Henrietta Flusky (Ingrid Bergman), an old acquaintance of his childhood in Ireland. Soon Charles discovers that Henrietta is alcoholic and a totally unstable woman, controlled by the housekeeper Milly (Margaret Leighton), and Sam was the groom of her family in Ireland. They had fallen in love with each other and Henrietta eloped with Sam. However, her brother hunts them and Sam kills him and is deported to Australia. Charles stays on Sam's farm to help Henrietta, and soon he falls in love with her. Meanwhile, Sam is manipulated by Milly, and his jealousy gets him into trouble and discloses dark secrets from his past with Henrietta.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil