A father is worried that his son will be rejected by a top-rated college, an ex-convict resorts to blackmail to insure the boy's entrance.

While her husband is away on an extended business trip, Vivian Braxton, a lonely housewife, becomes infatuated with another man, Johnny Kyper.
When Kyper threatens Vivian with exposure unless she gives him a large sum of money, the young woman searches frantically for a solution to her problem.