During World War I, small-town girl Josephine Norris has an illegitimate son by an itinerant pilot. After a scheme to adopt him ends up giving him to another family, she devotes her life to loving him from afar.

Olivia de Havilland
as Miss Josephine 'Jody' Norris

John Lund
as Gregory Pierson / Bart Cosgrove

Mary Anderson
as Corinne Piersen

Roland Culver
as Lord Desham

Phillip Terry
as Alex Piersen

Bill Goodwin
as Mac Tilton

Virginia Welles
as Liz Lorimer

Victoria Horne
as Nurse Daisy Gingras

Griff Barnett
as Daniel J. Norris

Billy Ward
as Young Gregory