Julia Crichton, a young staff-nurse, and Dr Philip Newman are deeply in love, but Philip is planning to go to Africa in a month's time to help in his father's practice. Julia's choice is a heart-rending one - to stay with her father who so desperately needs her, or travel to the other side of the world with the man she loves. In making her decision, she hardly expects the going to be easy, but is ill-prepared for events which follow...