Orson Welles writes, directs and stars in this silent comedy adaptation, his first professional feature. After discovering his wife Clairette (Arlene Francis) has been unfaithful to him Leon Dathis (Edgar Barrier) flees aboard a ship to Cuba in pursuit of her lover Augustus Billings (Joseph Cotten). But when both parties arrive at their destination, Billings, in order to hide from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary Wickes), adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson.