Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's lyric film is set against magnificent photography of Scotland's Western Isles; the story is full of sophisticated British wit, and enlivened by a wealth of Scottish humor, singing and dancing. Wendy Hiller portrays a mercenary English woman who leaves London to marry a wealthy Scottish industrialist living on the tiny island of Kiloran. When she becomes stranded by gale storms on the Isle of Mull, she encounters a young Highland naval officer (Roger Livesey) who is also waiting to make the crossing. They are given shelter and hospitality by local Scottish folk, and the woman is exposed for the first time to a happiness unconnected to money, a simplicity of folk ways and nature that confounds her world view, and finally to love. William K. Everson calls this film "meticulously crafted and designed, very much a labor of love, yet approached with that casual affection which often begets major films.... (With) many rich and warm characterizations, and interesting insights into British and Scottish character and social strata, it's a lovely film which brings forth added delights with each re-viewing...."