As Napoleon’s campaigns unfold across Europe, "Becky" (Miriam Hopkins) pursues her own ambitions. Eager to rise above her beginnings as the child of performers, she manipulates any man who crosses her path to advance her position. She seems unconcerned with the consequences left behind by her actions—including her abandoned soldier husband, "Crawley" (Alan Mowbray)—but perhaps encounters a formidable opponent in the …