spoiler look like a combination homeless bag lady and something that the cat drag in louise howell and joan crawford and aimlessly walk the street of los angeles ask and look for just one thing and the only word that come out of her mouth and david . take to the city municipal hospital louise and admit a a jane doe and be declare by the head of psychiatry dr. harvey willard and stanley ridge and a suffer from a complete mental breakdown and put under strong medication to bring her both mind and memory back to normal . it when louise be be treat with mind altering and psychotic drug that she remember what bring her to this state of insanity and it have to do with her former lover confirm bachelor and swing construction engineer and part time piano player david sutton and van heflin and the david that louis be ask for at the beginning of the movie . louise and david have a hot and sizzle relationship go between them but david felt that it be get a bit out of hand and want to put the break on it . this decision on david part have louise go off her nut to the point of almost lose both her composer and when david be around and and her ability to look after her and davids employer dean graham and raymond massey and very ill wife pauline whom louise and a licensed nurse and be take care off . david hold on louise be so strong that it totally warp her mind have the love sick woman go into fit of anger and self pity over his treatment of her by want to have nothing to do with louise . it during this time that pauline end up jump into a nearby lake drown herself with a mind numbed and guilty conscience louise feeling responsible for pauline death or suicide . while louise be so stuck up on david she doesn not realize that her bos mr. graham have fall madly in love with her and out of the clear blue sky propose marriage to a totally surprised louise . you would have think that dean graham marry louise and who grudgingly accept his proposal and would have straighten her out but it only have the reverse effect with louise step daughter carol and gerldine brook and come into the picture and into her life . at first carol be anything but affectionate to her step mother louise feeling that she be have an affair with her father dean graham behind her mother back which lead her to kill herself . it take carol father dean to straighten her out on her mother and and his wife and tragic death in him be present when she take that one step beyond off the rock and into the lake drown herself . louise at the time be nowhere in sight be that it be her day off from her job a pauline nurse . it also tell by carol father that pauline be very sick and what she think or say and about him and louise have an affair and be just wild and unfounded thought that she conjure up in her both sick and confused mind . it just when it seem that louise have her life straighten out with david go out of it and carol accept her a her mother that thing really take a downward turn with david unexpectedly show up again . stung by the love bug david and back from his job for mr. graham in canada and have get really hot for carol and some 15 year be junior and and this be something that louise just wont take lie down or stand up . louise in try to split carol up from david have her turn against her with carol and david schedule to tie the knot as soon a possible to just stick it to her intrusive and annoying step mother . get nowhere with carol in try to malign david in what a two timing rat he be and which be a total lie and lousie then go on to confront david threaten to blow him away and with her handgun and if he go through with his marriage to carol . david a bit too sure of himself and think that louise would not go through with it call louise bluff which turn out to be the very last thing that he ever do . back to the present and in the hospital louise be now in a total vegetable with her mind completely go . dean summon to his wife bedside can only hope that she will recover even if she have to face justice in david untimely death which she will very probably get off on an insanity defense . dr. willard tell a grieving dean graham that his wife have a very good chance to recover and that he will take a personal interest in see to it and do everything possible to make it happen . we can only hope with the great advance in mental therapy and since 1947 when the movie possess be make and and psychiatric study that what dr. willard tell dean graham turn out to be true .