A woman is forced to keep her marriage and past indiscretions a secret from those she loves.

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left town Paul runs away from his abusive father, and meets a girl named Lady who has run away from a burning trainwreck, not wanting to go back to the people she was with. Carrie comes back for Paul and ends up taking Paul and Lady to New York with her.

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.

City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.

A sweet little country girl has issues with school. Her mother is ill. The school threatens to send her to an orphanage.