The thoughts that people think are never the same as the words they speak - and in this movie, the viewer can hear the thoughts. Gordon Shaw was a flyer who was shot down and killed during WWI. Nina (Norma Shearer) would have married him before he left, but her father forbade the marriage. Charlie (Ralph Morgan) is a friend, but Nina does not love him and he is too timid - too shy - to tell her the way that he feels about her. Sam (Alexander Kirkland) is her husband and love disappears after the ceremony when she finds out that there is mental illness in his family and that there can be no children. To have the child she wants, but cannot have with Sam, she has a secret affair with Ned (Clark Gable), who wants her to leave Sam. Gordon is the result of the affair, but he does not know Ned is his real father. Nina continues to play with the emotions of all three men and devote herself solely to Gordon.
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