Cyril Maitland is a clergyman living in a small seaside town, who impregnates the beautiful Alma Lee despite being engaged to another woman.

Mailtand's best friend, Doctor Henry Everard, gets the blame, and spends twenty years in jail while Maitland's career thrives.

He arranged for the play to be adapted into a screenplay by ABC radio writer Edmund Barclay and an old friend of Hall's Gayne Dexter The film was meant to be Cinesound's follow up to On Our Selection but Hall had trouble finding appropriate actors to play the leads, and so made The Squatter's Daughter instead.

[13] Ken G. Hall ran into trouble with the censor over scenes where Charlotte Francis swims on the beach and later seduces the clergyman.

[20]The intention was for Cinesound to follow this movie with an adaptation of Robbery Under Arms[21] but uncertainty over whether films about bushrangers were still banned led the company to make Strike Me Lucky (1934) instead.