Devlin (Cary Grant) enlists Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, to work as a spy by getting in the good graces of Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), a Nazi hiding out in Brazil.
US government agent T.R. Devlin (Cary Grant) enlists Alicia Huberman (Ingrid Bergman), the American daughter of a convicted German war criminal, to work as a spy by getting in the good graces of Alexander Sebastian (Claude Rains), a Nazi hiding out in Brazil. As Sebastian grows fonder of Alicia, she and Devlin find themselves falling for each other, creating an absolute mess of a situation that puts them both in danger. What really makes Notorious stand out among Hitchcock's other films is how deeply romantic it is as a film, as the love story between Devlin and Alicia is not simply the backdrop to the main story; it is the main story, and it is a hell of a journey to watch these two try to navigate the impossible circumstances they find themselves in.