This peculiar little picture may have invented a new genre: the mad-scientist noir romantic melodrama. Research scientist Nora (Brenda Marshall) is engaged to colleague Steve (William Gargan, an unlikely lust-object-but then Nora's idea of romance involves discussions of the sclerotic coating of the eye). When Nora tests a new anesthetic on herself, scheming coworker Arline (Hillary Brooke) engineers an accident that leaves Nora disfigured and Steve available. Nora, needing plastic surgery, naturally heads for L.A., and hatches a plan to betray her betrayer in turn. The impersonation isn't the only strange thing about the movie, whose plot is constructed according to dream-logic rather than scientific method. The cinematography has moments of expressionist force, under the glaring lamps of surgery and interrogation room.