A naive young woman moves into the mansion that belongs to her new husband, a rich widower. She soon realizes the memory of his deceased first wife maintains a grip on her husband, as well as the staff of servants.

While on holiday with her employer, a shy young woman falls in love with wealthy widower Maxime De Winter. She is surprised and overjoyed when this handsome brooding gentleman asks her to be his wife. But the whirlwind romance crumbles around her after they return to his seaside mansion, which is still filled with the memories of Rebecca, his first wife. The stunningly beautiful Rebecca had every man wrapped around her finger and the obsessive devotion of the menacing housekeeper, Signora Danvers.—L. Hamre