Stormswept plot
"A mighty drama of shattered souls reborn upon the sea"
Despondent over his wife's infidelity, William McCabe wanders the waterfront and contemplates suicide, but instead saves the life of Shark Moran. Moran gives McCabe a job on his lightship, where McCabe enjoys the solitude and falls in love with Ann Reynolds, the daughter of the captain of the supply ship. One day, Moran rescues a woman in a storm and makes advances toward her. When McCabe discovers that the woman is his own wife, a violent quarrel ensues between the two men.