Glenda Jenkins has been beaten by her husband Harry one too many times – and this time he's put her in a hospital bed. Battered and bruised, Glenda slowly makes her recovery. When Glenda meets a kind hospital porter, Frank, he offers her a lifeline she can't refuse. The pair decide to run away together, escaping the terror of Harry. But, fearing for her life, Glenda has to make the biggest sacrifice of all and leave her baby, Johnnie, behind. Will she ever see her baby again?