Candy Toxton

Un prestigioso abogado liberal, surgido de los barrios bajos y la pobreza, asume la defensa de un joven delincuente acusado de asesinar a un policía.

Retrato de las carreras profesionales de Richard Rodgers y Lorenz Hart, dos conocidos escritores de canciones.

A Ricardo le gusta la vida tranquila de su Boston natal. Pero, en contra de sus deseos, su familia prefiere que siga los pasos de su padre y se convierta en un bandolero.

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.

Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites her mother to her wedding, with the disapproval of William's mother.