Fashionable Monte Carlo is a lonely, frightening place to the shy young orphan girl... until she meets the mysterious Maxim de Winter.

A whirlwind courtship, a brief Venetian honeymoon, and Maxim is ready to take his shy, inexperienced bride home: the second Mrs de Winter, the new mistress of Manderley.

The Girl's joy in being Maxim's wife is subtly undermined by the haunting presence of Rebecca - guarded, cherished by the loyal Mrs Danvers Determined to make Maxim happy. Plans are soon under way to revive the Manderley Ball.

The nightmare of the Manderley Ball is climaxed by shipwreck, and the discovery of Rebecca's body in Manderley Bay forces Maxim to confess.