Cirrus@Austlit

Eileen Kell, a former music-hall dancer, marries a lighthouse keeper but soon learns to hate the lonely, isolated life. She begins a passionate affair with her husband's assistant. More trouble ensues when a handsome fugitive is washed up after a storm. When Eileen and the stranger also begin a torrid affair, the assistant institutes a showdown with his rival. Eileen subsequently kills the assistant, but her new lover is accused of the crime and arrested by the police. She eventually leaves her spouse and begins hanging out in rundown dance halls until her true love is released from prison.