In her only film with Clark Gable, Garbo plays an illegitimate farmer's-daughter who embarks on a series of loveless affairs when her construction-engineer boyfriend casts her out of his mountain retreat. Despite the overheated plot--which actually ends up in a South American jungle locale!--critic David Robinson notes, "In the middle of it all, the extraordinary figure of Garbo emerges, not just as a human being among the faded stereotypes, but a creature of enduring fascination: a girl whose nerves and passions are all alive and only just under the skin."