Kelly, a prostitute who tires of her city syndicate and seeks to forget her past, arrives in the small town of Grantville and obtains a job at the Children's Orthopedic Hospital as a nurses' aid. At once she is caught up in a romantic whirl, first with a police chief who wants her for what she used to be, and then with his best friend, the town's millionaire, who even though aware of her former life, begs her to marry him. She accepts, but things go awry as Kelly discovers a shocking murder scene. Arrested by the police chief, she is quickly convicted in the minds of most of the townspeople and must suffer their judgement based on her past.