乔安(温蒂·希勒 Wendy Hiller 饰)是罕见的那种非常有自主的女人,她懂得自己的需求,亦懂得为了满足自己的需求,她需要付出怎样的代价。某日,她登上了前往苏格兰的邮轮,她要去见她的未婚夫——一个腰缠万贯但是年龄足以做她的父亲的男人。虽然乔安对这个男人并没有感情,但她知道,一旦嫁入豪门,便是为自己日后的辉煌人生铺好了基石。 在游轮上,乔安邂逅了名为托奎尔(罗杰·莱伍赛 Roger Livesey 饰)的船长,托奎尔幽默风趣又充满了青春活力,他的活跃吸引了乔安的注意。一场暴风雨的不期而至阻碍了邮轮的前行,在此期间,乔安和托奎尔之间碰撞出了激情的火花。Joan Webster is an ambitious and stubborn middle-class English woman determined to move forward since her childhood. She meets her father in a fancy restaurant to tell him that she will marry the wealthy middle-aged industrial Robert Bellinger in Kiloran island, in the Hebrides Islands, Scotland. She travels from Manchester to the island of Mull, where she stays trapped due to the windy weather. Whilst on the island, she meets Torquil McNeil and as the days go by they fall in love with each other.