A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and believes that Morgan is smart enough to attend Oxford.
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
After an innocent man is executed in a case he was responsible for, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.