一场不测让中国女孩莲花（黄柳霜 饰）结识了美国人艾伦（肯尼斯·哈兰 Kenneth Harlan 饰），艾伦刚刚从一场可骇的海难中死里逃生，仁慈的莲花收收留并且不离不弃的赐顾帮衬着艾伦，跟着时候的推移，两人逐步走到了一起。莲花一心停整理艾伦在痊愈今后可以对带她回美国，可是家庭的变故让艾伦没法顾及莲花，匆匆的回国了。　　艾伦走后，莲花才…

Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache…