Aspiring dancer Phyllis Dixey makes her name as a stripper.

The wealthy Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff, a young street urchin, welcoming the boy into his stately rural mansion, Wuthering Heights. Though Earnshaw's daughter Catherine initially treats Heathcliff with disgust, the two eventually fall in love. But when Catherine's hateful brother Hindley returns home in the wake of his father's sudden death, it threatens to tear the young lovers apart.