Vicky Blake (Claire Trevor) is a nurse at a U.S. Navy hospital in Hawaii. Reluctant to fall in love because what she has seen of divorce, her views change when she meets navy doctor Quentin Harden. She is under the impression that he is still in love with his deceased wife, but because he has a young crippled daughter, Susan Harden (Anne Howard), she marries him anyway...and finds he does indeed love her.