While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of affairs.

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.

泰沙（琼·芳登 Joan Fontaine 饰）和姐妹们居住在非常偏远的山脚下，一群单纯可爱的姑娘们过着离群索居世外桃源般的生活。一天，一个名叫路易斯（查尔斯·博耶 Charles Boyer 饰）的音乐家在偶然之中闯入了泰沙的生活之中，被前者的才华深深吸引的泰沙不可自持的深深爱上了路易斯。
没过多久，泰沙的父亲去世了，照顾泰沙的责任落到了她的小姑弗洛伦斯（亚历克西斯·史密斯 Alexis Smith 饰）的身上。泰沙非常悲伤的察觉到，路易斯和弗洛伦斯之间产生了爱意。之后，泰沙和她的姐妹们被送进了教会学校念书，不愿意放弃自己这份情感的泰沙偷偷的从学校里溜了出来。

Roger Grant, a classical violinist, disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger falls in love with his singer Stella, but his reluctance to lose her leads him to thwart her efforts to become a solo star. When the World War separates them in 1917, Stella marries Roger's best friend Charlie. Roger comes home after the war and an important concert at Carnegie Hall brings the corners of the romantic triangle together.

Whatever it is, there's nothing you can't tell the woman you love.

Alison Drake, the tough-minded executive of an automobile factory, succeeds in the man's world of business until she meets an independent design engineer.

A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.