Synopsis: After young widow Hester Prynne gives birth to a daughter and refuses to name the father, she is forced to wear a letter "A" for adulteress sewn into her clothing. Hester is protecting the young minister, Arthur Dimmsdale, who is the father of her baby. But when Hester's husband, Roger -- believed drowned at sea -- returns alive, he discovers Arthur's secret and cruelly plays upon the minister's shame to exact revenge.