A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
