In one of her most memorable film roles, Bette Davis portrays a repressed spinster who eventually overcomes her problems through the help of her doctor (Claude Rains). On a cruise, she meets the romantic Jerry Durrence (Paul Henreid), a man tied down to a sickly wife. They fall in love although both realize the impossibility of total fulfillment. "Don't ask for the moon," she tells him, "when we have the stars."