Mye i denne historien setter to opp mot hverandre. Tennisstjernen Guy (Farley Granger) hater sin utro kone. Den mystiske Bruno (Robert Walker) hater sin far. Et perfekt utgangspunkt for et kriminelt forslag: Jeg dreper din, du dreper min.
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
