In Southern Rhodesia in the 1940s, city-dweller Mary marries farmer Dick Turner and is plucked from the comforts of her cosmopolitan life and forced to live on his unsuccessful farm. Mary slowly goes insane and has a sexual affair with her black servant, Moses. When the affair is discovered, Mary asks Moses to leave the farm, but he returns and murders her.

Una mujer de ciudad se traslada a un país extranjero con su futuro marido, renunciando a todas las comodidades de la vida cosmopolita. La vida en el campo, finalmente se cobra su peaje en ella, y ella se encuentra involucrada sexualmente con otro hombre.