在这部安娜·克里斯蒂剧情/爱情片中,安娜（葛丽泰·嘉宝 Greta Garbo 饰）是一名妓女，她的父亲终日沉迷于酒精之中，对女儿毫不关心。除了要照顾父亲之外，安娜还要照顾父亲的姘头玛瑟（玛丽·杜丝勒 Marie Dressler 饰）。玛瑟是一个狡猾又贪婪的女人，常常在安娜的身上揩油。
一次，安娜生病住进了医院，好不容易出院后，安娜发誓再也不要过以前那种糜烂的生活了。她决定金盆洗手洗心革面。住进了父亲的小船的安娜过了一段平静的日子，一天，一位名叫马特（查尔斯·比克福德 Charles Bickford 饰）的海员闯入了安娜的生活，他疯狂的爱上了安娜。马特的存在让安娜开始相信爱情，对未来产生了憧憬。
In New York, the alcoholic skipper of a coal barge Chris Christofferson receives a letter from his estranged twenty year old daughter Anna "Christie" Christofferson telling that she will leave Minnesota to stay with him. Chris left Anna fifteen years ago to the countryside to be raised by relatives in a farm in St. Paul and he has never visited his daughter. Anna Christie arrives and she is a wounded woman with a hidden dishonorable past since she had worked for two years in a brothel to survive. She moves to the barge to live with her father and one night, Chris rescues the sailor Matt and two other fainted sailors from the sea. Soon Anna and Matt fall in love with each other and Anna has the best days of her life. But when Matt proposes to marry her, she is reluctant and also haunted by her past. Matt insists and Anna opens her heart to Matt and to her father disclosing the darks secrets of her past.
安娜.里拉，我的小女孩。《安娜·克里斯蒂》：谁为受了性侵的女孩负责？。《安娜·克里斯蒂》：谁为受了性侵的女孩负责？。《安娜克莉丝蒂》。吻我，娶我，快乐终老。
