Often described as the first film to deal seriously with mental illness and mental institutions, Olivia De Havilland stars as Virginia Cunningham in a harrowing story of a wife, who finds herself in a state insane asylum. She can't remember how she got there, she doesn't know why she's there, and she doesn't know who her husband is, but along with the treatment she receives from Dr Kik, they try to find what is the underlying problem with her mental condition...