When Dr. Anthony Edwardes finds a Vermont mental hospital to restore the hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is truly an impostor. The man admits the true Dr. Edwardes is dead and worries he might have killed him, but can't recall anything. Dr. Peterson, nevertheless is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a search to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.