It was based on the Ern Malley hoax making the play one of the few works on American television at the time to draw inspiration from Australian culture.

[1] William Bingham is an unsuccessful "artistic" writer married to Glenda, who loves best sellers.

It is meant to be the confessions of a 17-year-old Australian girl named Daisy Smith who has recently died.

[2] Sumner Locke Elliott was Australian and based the script on the Ern Malley hoax.

[3] Variety said "Starting off with a promising but familiar premise" Elliott "had the choice of either developing that premise logically but risking the problem of an overfamiliar theme, or developing in an offbeat direction and making the outcome of the play a non-sequitur.