Fanny Trellis is a vain woman who, to pay her brother's debts, marries a financier she does not love - Mr. Skeffington. The marriage does not last, and the former Mrs. Skeffington flits from beau to beau. But when she contracts diphtheria, her beauty is destroyed by the terrible scars. Now unable to win men's hearts with her beauty, she finally finds love with the man she had wed years before.
