A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.