[3][4] Respectable wife Ruth attempts to conceal her secret past as a criminal from neighbours and from her husband Chris.
However, when a neighbour is burgled and Ruth mysteriously disappears, she becomes the police's prime suspect.
Husband Chris searches the city for Ruth, in hopes of proving her innocence.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "With a far-fetched and tasteless story, strenuously but inexpertly played out, this emotional melodrama has little to recommend it.
"[6] Sky Movies wrote, "talented director Don Chaffey, who later made The Man Upstairs, Jason and the Argonauts and A Jolly Bad Fellow treats novelettish material with some flair in this story of a former 'bad girl' whose past threatens her present happiness.