Madeleine Damien is the fashion editor of a slick Manhattan magazine called Boulevard.

She meets her neighbor, handsome medical researcher David Cousins, who needs someone to draw the cells that he studies under the microscope.

He proposes marriage, but Madeleine is hesitant because she has never told David about her troubled love life.

Madeleine learns of the murder from the newspaper and realizes that she is in trouble, but the police soon arrive to arrest her.

David arrives just in time to grab Madeleine on the tarmac, and the plane departs without her as the two embrace.

The Hays Office insisted that two love affairs in the script, one in Mexico and the other in New York, might be "overloading" the picture, and also objected to the "night of sordid passion."

A memo dated April 25, 1946 stated that, despite revisions, the script was unacceptable because of its gratuitous sex and references to Madeleine's unsavory family secrets.

A character named Moreno and an affair in Mexico City were excised, and the "night of sordid passion" was not shown.

In the final script submitted to the Hays Office, Madeleine takes a trip hoping that the time will come when she can be with David; the reunion at the film's closing was added later.