The Kettles and their fifteen children are about to be evicted from their rundown rustic home when Pa wins the grand prize by coming up with a new tobacco slogan. Birdie Hicks is jealous of the family's new wealth, which includes a completely automated modern home, and accuses Pa of stealing the slogan. Reporter Kim Parker proves Birdie wrong and marries Tom Kettle.
John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss (Dan Duryea), who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.
사귀던 여자의 남편에게서 결투신청을 받은 스테판은 당분간 피해 있기로 마음먹지만 미지의 여인에게서 온 편지를 읽느라 기회를 놓친다. 그 편지에는 스테판이 촉망받던 음악가였을 때 그를 사랑했던 한 여인의 일생이 담겨 있었다. 스테판이 음악가로서의 일생을 포기하고 술과 여자로 방탕한 생활을 하는 동안 그 미지의 여인은 스테판의 아이까지 낳아 기르다가 결국은 병으로 아이마저 잃고 자신도 죽게된다. 스테판은 서서히 자신도 한때나마 사랑했었던 리자라는 이름의 그녀를 기억하게 된다. 자신의 주변에서 늘 서성였던 그녀의 존재를 몇번씩이나 잊어 버린데서 비롯된 젊은 날의 회한에 비로소 스테판은 절망하게 되는데...
Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates them--and getting involved with a race-car builder who's trying to find backers for a new midget racer he's building.
Maria Montez plays a Spanish dancer named Rita, who is determined to bring Nazi collaborator Colonel Jose Artiego (Preston Foster) to justice. Artiego is at presently working incognito, as military governor of the North African city of Tangier. Maria finds an unexpected ally in the form of Artiego's discarded mistress Dolores (Louise Allbritton).