Academy Award winner Greer Garson and Dana Andrews star as rival doctors in the frontier town of Santa Fe at a time when a woman doctor is the Strange Lady in Town. 1879. When Dr. Julia Winlsow Garth (Garson--Mrs. Miniver) arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to open a medical practice, Dr. Rourke O'Brien (Andrews--) does not welcome the competition and firmly believes that a women should not be doctors. As O'Brien finds himself attracted to Garth, and she openly supports the suffragette movement to bring rights to women only complicate professional rivalry.