Life in the institution is highly regimented, a total ban on talking among inmates. De Havilland's Virginia is hearing voices and doesn't recognise her husband. The film quickly flashes backwards from the gloomy scenes in the institution to Virginia's first meeting with her husband-to-be. They get on well but on the way to a concert she suddenly rushes off. He finds her and they marry but she becomes distant. Back in the institution we see her undergoing Electric Shock Treatment. And there are scenes of the huge room full of beds in which the women sleep. These are worse conditions than in prison. Virginia is released before she is ready and from then the film becomes a mystery story in a search to find out what caused her illness. The film is dated and only marginally of historical interest for its attitude towards psychiatry.