When tragedy deprives Lorinda of her family, she is sent to live with her aunt Doris. Treated as an unpaid servant, alone and loveless, Lorinda craves affection. Then she falls in love with Johnny Fenwick, one of her aunt's boarders. When it seems that her relationship with Johnny is doomed to failure, young doctor Tom Gray offers another way out. Trapped in a marriage to a husband whose passion she cannot return, Lorinda believes that she has lost her only chance of happiness.