Eager for a job, Adam White (Montgomery Clift) starts work as an advice-giving columnist. His editor, Shrike, (Robert Ryan)) takes pleasure in browbeating his alcoholic wife Florence, (Myrna Loy) for past adultery, & assigning his employees journalistic jobs of little interest. Shrike goads Adam into meeting a correspondent, Fay Doyle, (Dolores Hart) a self-pitying girl who makes a play for him.
