The king of Hollywood melodrama does not disappoint in this drama about the imprisoning nature of provincial America.
When Naomi Murdock returns to the family she abandoned ten years earlier for a life on the stage, her reception is not as she hoped. Her return conjures memories of her previous adultery, and she finds the townspeople's malice has not dimmed in her absence. The tangled emotions of love, jealousy, hatred and betrayal resurface.
