Linda is forced to move out her father's house. She settles in New York City and meets Garry, a young engineer. Just like a modern fairy tale, they fall in love, get married and move into a Bronx apartment house. All seems well until, on a long job assignment, Garry goes overseas and Linda is lured into an affair with older neighbor, Stuart. Through a spellbound plot the reader is asked to root for the adulterous wife who might become a better person...