On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones talked to other neighbors in her residential building about Mrs. Anna Maurant's romantic affair with Steve Sankey, the milkman. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Morant arrived, they changed the topic. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurant is under sexual pressure from their married boss, Mr. Bert Easter. However, she really likes her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a deep crush on her. The next morning, Frank Morant told his wife that he was going on a business trip to Stamford. Madame Maurant met gentle Sankey in the apartment, but Frank suddenly went home. He realized that his wife and Sanki were upstairs, so he ran upstairs. We heard gunshots and saw two men struggling as Sanki tried to escape from the window. Morant ran out with a gun. He killed Sanki and fatally injured his wife. Maurant was arrested and taken away by the police. He apologized to his daughter Ross, who now has to take care of himself and his brother without his parents. Ross's boss once again proposed to place her in her own apartment, but she refused. Then she saw Sam and told him that she wanted to leave the city. Sam begged her to let him go with her, but she told her that they had better separate for a few years before considering getting married. Ross walked alone on the street.