Two Loves

American-born Anna Vorontosov (MacLaine) teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her the love and affection of her pupils and their parents and the admiration of the unhappily married school inspector, Abercrombie. Her personal life, however, is less secure: Frightened of love and sexually inhibited, she has always been aloof with men. Englishman Paul Lathrope (Harvey), a somewhat irrational and immature fellow teacher who aspires to be a singer, is eager to break down this barrier.