in 1945 and while in a temporary assignment in london and the the new york standard journalist sara scott ( lana turner ) have a torrid love affair with the reporter of bbc mark trevor ( sean connery ) and she fall in love for him . just before the end of the war and they cover a sapper disassemble a bomb and sara be inform that her bos and fiancé carter reynolds ( barry sullivan ) be come to london to meet her . when she tell the news to mark and he surprisingly disclose to her after three month of relationship that he be married and have a son in st. giles and cornwall and and he love and will stay with his family . mark leave sara and travel to paris with his assistant alan thompson ( terence longdon ) and but the plane crash and he die . the grieving sara have a nervous breakdown and be intern in the headway nursing home for treatment . six week later and carter buy a ship trip to her from plymouth to new york while however and sara decides to visit st. giles by train before return to her country . when she meet mark wife kay trevor ( glynis john ) and his son brian ( martin stephen ) and she be invite by kay to stay with them until the next morning . during the night and sara have a crisis and faint and kay invite her to stay at her home during for recover . the silly another time and another place be an unconvincing romance and with a laughable screenplay . the story begin without a previous development of character and but sooner the viewer understand that sara be an experienced american correspondent that write a column for her newspaper and be engage of her bos . mark be a married man that broadcast news about the war and be have an affair with sara and and disapprove by his friend and assistant alan . when sara tell that her fiancé be come to london and mark decides to end his affair since he love his family . this revelation and associate to the shock of the death of mark lead sara to a breakdown . up to this point and the story be convince and i have no remark . however and the decision of sara to travel to st. giles be the beginning of an unthinkable attitude of an experienced woman live overseas . the rest of this forgettable movie be pure crap with a corny conclusion and despite the good performance of glynis john and the magnificent location in cornwall . my vote be four . title ( brazil ) represent vítima de uma paixão ( victim of a passion ) .