[1] The film is about a piano player who falls in love with a crippled man's wife.

Mallabee is a millionaire sugar-cane grower in Cuba who blames his wife, Lorna, for an accident that has left him in a wheelchair.

Lorna has been having an affair with Nick, a piano player in a Havana nightclub.

Mallabee secretly is aware of this, having hired a private investigator to follow his wife.

She won't do it, but a trusted servant, Valdes, does cause his death by drowning.