Chip is killed accidentally while trying to rape a blonde girl, who runs. Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns. Silver is rebellious and causes trouble at the school, and her friend Sarafina totters near the brink of self-destruction because of an infatuation with a young singer. Meanwhile Chip's father hires a detective to find out the truth, and Chip's friend Fred gets Silver's sister in trouble at a drag race. Silver has a lot of problems all right.

Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia's husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and end up on death row. Later Dell, finding out that David's young daughter Susan was witness to the crime and is undergoing psychiatric treatment, plans to eliminate her before her memory returns.

High school thug is front man for a local marijuana ring.

富尔顿（查尔斯·科本 Charles Coburn 饰）是一个性格古怪的艺术家，一生没有结婚，也没有后代，独自生活在布莱斯德尔家的一间房间里。曾经的查尔顿是一个一穷二白的无名之辈，他爱上了布莱斯德尔先生的母亲，遗憾的是，最终两人没能够走到一起。如今，富尔顿已经垂垂老矣，他想要把自己的财产留给这家人，却并不知道自己的选择是否正确，于是他决定给这家人一个小小的考验。
富尔顿偷偷的给了这家人10万美元的巨款，这可让布莱斯德尔太太乐开了花，她决定利用这笔钱好好的改善一下他们的生活环境，同时怂恿女儿米莉森特（派珀·劳瑞 Piper Laurie 饰）甩掉无能的男友丹（洛克·哈德森 Rock Hudson 饰），找一个金龟婿。