If Winter Comes plot
"The motion picture version of A.S.M. Hutchinsons novel. Mightier than the book."
Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold wife, Mabel, company while he goes off to war. When he returns home wounded from the front, he discovers that Mabel has dismissed Effie, who shows up at Mark's door with her baby, having nowhere to go. Mark takes her in, but Mabel leaves him when the town rejects him because of what they suspect is happening to Mark and Effie. Matters are further complicated when Effie, driven to despair, commits an unspeakable act that results in Mark having a nervous breakdown.