Divorced for two years, Nancy Caruthers, asks her new lover, Paul Adams, a medical student, to move in. She has custody of her two daughters, but this new living arrangement prompts her ex-husband, Richard to sue for custody, based on moral grounds. He does not really want the girls to live with him, but his strict religious background will not allow him to stand by and let them be raised in an atmosphere of 'sin.'
Un joven con retraso mental es objeto de burla de todos en el pueblo donde vive, donde sólo una amiga le hace caso y juega con él. Cuando la niña aparece muerta, es acusado de su muerte, por lo que el joven huye disfrazándose de espantapájaros. Pero un grupo de hombres del pueblo lo encuentra...
