First Childhood

) While staying at an ocean resort, Walter Owens, a lawyer, meets Regina Summerfield, a philosophical but strange woman who invites him to her mansion to meet her husband, Everett. Owens soon realizes that Everett was killed at Pearl Harbor, although Mrs. Summerfield still talks to him, and the “mansion” is a dilapidated old house. But when Mrs. Summerfield’s niece tries to have her committed to an institution and take her house, Owens attempts to defend the eccentric lady, and it’s her strange childhood that provides the key to her defense.

The courtroom becomes a battleground of reason and belief when Walter Owens, who defends Regina Summerfield against a charge of insanity, finds evidence that her belief in her dead husband's continued existence may be founded on truth. In the end, he dismisses the case against her.

When lawyer Walter Owens takes on Regina Summerfield's case to prove she isn't crazy, he discovers that her claims about her dead husband still being alive might actually be real. The courtroom turns into a fight between logic and faith, and Walter ends up dropping all charges against her.