He needs a hot topic to stimulate sales and decides that a scandalous story about movie star Mary Sawyer will do the trick.

Following a lead, Manley discovers that Sawyer has a damaging secret known to no one but a long-time friend, a Scott Martin.

If he doesn't get the damaging information about Mary Sawyer in time for the magazine's next edition, he will ruin Scott's television career by exposing his criminal past.

Her fear and unhappiness about their future being destroyed getting the better of her, Connie implores her husband to betray Mary, putting his own family's needs first.

Misery becomes tragedy when the boy, Joey, taunted at school, runs into the street and is hit by a car and killed, just as Connie was coming to bring him home to Scott.