A married woman pursues an affair with her abusive husband's best friend and tries to keep her secret life going despite her personal life collapsing around her.
Jean Novak, neglected by her brutal and alcoholic mechanic husband Stan, pursues affairs with other men. One of them is Stan's best friend Eddie, whom she falls in love with. When Eddie wants to break it off with Jean, she resorts to underhanded tactics to continue seeing Eddie by introducing Stan's unmarried younger sister Ellen, to Eddie and trying to break them up. But when Stan finds out that Jean is neglecting their three-year-old son for drunken binges and sex parties, he goes over the deep end and sets out to stop Jean, for good.—matt-282
Jean (Natalie Rogers), a beautiful dizzy blonde, is married to Stan Novack (Don Williams), a garage mechanic. Stan, a virile hunk of a man, overlooks Jean's sloppiness because he is crazy about her. But when she neglects their three-year-old son, Jimmy, or hits the bottle too often, he slaps her around despite his love for her. Stan doesn't realize Jean has a roving eye and plays around with other men. If he did, you get the feeling he would kill her.
Jean seduces Stan's best friend, Eddie (Peter Ratray). Eddie has guilt feelings about it an avoids seeing her any further. The more he avoids her, the more she pursues him, but to no avail. She now feels Eddie is the love of her life.
Jean gets Stan to introduce Eddie to his single sister Ellen (Joy Martin). She believes in this way the four of them will be thrown together and that she will make it with Eddie again. Much to Jean's consternation, Eddie falls for Ellen and continues to elude Jean.
The romance between Eddie and Ellen gets serious and they become engaged. Jean is furious. While Stan is away she plots to have Ellen find Eddie and herself in a compromising situation. Ellen is disgusted with both of them and runs off. Eddie is so enraged he beats Jean up. Jean gets dressed and runs after him, leaving little Jimmy alone.
Jean trails Eddie to a bar, where a wild orgy is going on in the back room. Eddie leaves immediately, but Jean gets involved in the orgy before she follows him again to his apartment. They both are drunk and Eddie slaps her around.
Stan comes home to find an ambulance in front of his house. Jimmy has fallen out of a window and is dead. Stan is heartbroken and furious. He finds out from neighbors and the owner of the bar, that Jean went to Eddie's place, and goes after her. He pulls Eddie off Jean and beats him up. Jean is frightened and runs to the roof to escape.
Ellen finds out about Jean's deception and comes to Eddie's apartment to forgive him. She finds him bloodied from the fight. He explains what happened and that he is afraid Stan will kill Jean. They run up just in time to see Stan and Jean scuffling near the edge of the roof before they topple off. Eddie and Ellen are distraught, but one feels they will never let anyone or anything separate them again.
