Novelist Richard Harland and socialite Ellen Berent meet on a train to New Mexico. They are immediately attracted to each other soon fall in love and decide to get married about which everyone they know is happy except Ellens fianc back home politician Russell Quinton. However Richard and Ellens love for each other is different than that of the other as Ellen demonstrates in the manner which she tells everyone of their impending marriage. Ellens love for Richard is an obsessive possessive one much like the love she had for her now deceased father who Richard physically resembles. Ellen wants Richard all to herself and resents anyone who even remotely takes a place in his life and heart even if his love for that person is not a romantic one. These people include most specifically Richards physically disabled teen-aged brother Danny Harland Ellens own adopted sister Ruth Berent.   ... >>