Dr. Victor Payson, a widower for just 6 months and father of a teenage daughter, is slated for the post of Chief of Surgeons of Collins General Hospital. But the wife of the hospital's director plants doubt among Payson's colleagues as to his suitability for the job because of his romance with a young divorcee.

The son of a wealthy French collaborator, who is secretly a member of the underground, falls in love and marries a young girl hiding from the Gestapo.

For years May Golden has ended every argument with her husband by threatening to get a job. When Mimi, her youngest married daughter, becomes exasperated with her mother's daily visits and free advice, May decides it's time to prove her value by making good her threat.

Former vaudeville singer Lil Andrews ambitiously makes preparations for her daughter's professional singing debut. She is unaware that the girl, who is living out of town with an aunt while taking singing lessons, has secretly married and given up plans for a singing career.