Nunca confíes en un hombre sea quien sea. Esta es la amarga lección que aprende Mary McNeil (Anna Calder-Marshall) en sus relaciones con tres hombres diferentes: su padre mujeriego (Sean Connery), un zalamero oficinista, Cornelius (Michael Caine) y un abogado, Emlyn (Paul Scofield), que está encantado con la vitalidad juvenil de Mary y su encanto. Sólo uno de estos hombres va a ganar su corazón al final...
A Canadian boy visits cousins in Scotland; his attitude first causes antagonism with Scottish youngsters, but disappears when the lad proves himself by riding a horse over dangerous country to bring aid to an injured shepherd.
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.