Dr. Vollin is a brilliant but unstable surgeon with a morbid obsession for Edgar Allan Poe. He saves the life of Jean Thatcher, a beautiful young socialite injured in an automobile accident, and becomes increasingly attracted to her.
On a train in Hungary, a couple meet a man returning after being a POW. In a freak turn of events, their hotel bus wrecks, injuring the woman near the home of the man the POW blames for his incarceration and taking his wife and daughter.