Beautiful Ronnie Hanniger, the young wife of a senator, had everything a woman could dream of - everything except love... until she met Tom Quinlan. They know that they can lose everything: he - his career, she - a luxurious life. And yet Ronnie is ready for a divorce, but at this critical moment the senator is killed, and compromising photographs of Ronnie in the arms of her lover are published in the newspapers. All of America is confident in the guilt of the beautiful widow. And only Tom understands that Ronnie herself is in mortal danger...