Clark Gable performs Ulysses "Lee" Johnson, a a short while ago discharged war surgeon whose self-complacency is shaken by his individual and qualified overcome ordeals, softening his misanthropy and easing a nexus with his estranged wife. The gravity of the remedy is proven in the title of Sidney Kingsley novel on which the movie is dependent, The Homecoming of Ulysses (1944), invoking Homer's historical Greek epic.