[1] As summarized in a film publication,[2] Laurie Devon (Mayo) is a New York playwright who, having had one success, refuses to work on another play.

One night he sees a woman (Anderson) in an apartment across the street take out a gun and place it to her forehead.

He reaches her in time to save her, and she tells him that she is under some terrible evil influence, which she will not disclose.

On returning home, he is heartbroken and tells his sister Barbara (Fair) and his friends that he is a murderer.

His sister and two of his friends then confess that the whole thing was a frame-up, that they had hired some actors to stage everything, and that it was an attempt to get the ambitionless author to write again.