Melville Farr es un prestigioso abogado inglés felizmente casado con Laura. Sin embargo, detrás de su apariencia conservadora se esconde un homosexual que busca escarceos con jovencitos, a pesar de que le había prometido a su mujer que esa etapa de su vida ya estaba clausurada. Ambientada en una época en la que la homosexualidad era todavía considerada un delito que podía implicar penas de cárcel.
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
