The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

1944年，被在第二次世界大战的战火弥漫的英国伦敦。萨拉.斯科特（拉娜.特纳饰）是一个在伦敦做战地采访的美国新闻女记者，她在这里爱上了另一位年轻的新闻记者--BBC（英国广播电视台）记者马克.泰勒（肖恩.康纳利饰）。萨拉向马克吐露了真情，但马克不能接受她，因为他是一个有家室的男人，他有一个妻子和一个孩子，他们幸福的居住在英格兰康沃…

Filmed largely in and around Windsor, director Wendy Toye's relatively unknown short film won the Best Fiction award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. Toye delightfully handles the ever darkening story from its almost madcap beginning to the sinister finale. Actor Alan Badel makes his film debut, and he would again lin…