Dr. Anthony Edwardes comes to a mental hospital in Vermont to succeed its outgoing director, but psychoanalyst Dr. Constance Peterson finds out that he is not who he claims to be. The real Dr. Edwardes, the man admits, is dead, and he fears he may be responsible, though his memory is a blank. Convinced nonetheless that he is innocent of the murder, Dr. Peterson joins him in trying to break through his amnesia by means of psychoanalysis.