One of the greatest movie stars of the century, the reclusive foreign-born Fedora, is known in Hollywood for inexplicably retained her youthful beauty over the course of a career spanning decades; she looks no older in her first film than she does in her final one. At the height of her fame, however, Fedora withdrew to a private island near Corfu and refused to be seen in public, leading to vast speculation on what became of her. All are shocked when it is confirmed that Fedora has committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a train.