美国南北战争前夕，南方农场塔拉庄园的令媛斯嘉丽（费雯·丽 Vivien Leigh 饰）爱上了另一个农场主的儿子艾希礼（莱斯利·霍华德 Leslie Howard 饰），遭到了回尽，为了报复，她嫁给了本人不爱的汉子，艾希礼妃耦梅兰妮（奥利维娅·德哈维兰 Olivia de Havilland 饰）的弟弟查尔斯。 战争时代，斯嘉丽成为孀妇，掉母亲，挑起生存的重任， …
Judge William Billy Priest lives in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew.
Shortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
