Bette Davis plays the warm, intelligent Louise Elliott, who loses her heart to a charming ne'er-do-well (Errol Flynn) who marries then deserts her. It takes the pandemonium of the San Francisco earthquake and two years of heartache to reunite them. Anita Louise & Jane Bryan co-star as Louise's sisters, whose own marital trials add more hankies to this prestige melodrama bookended by the 1904 and 1908 Presidential elections and enriched by a nod to the dawning women's movement.