Anne Dettrey is a hard working fashion editor at an important New York magazine who puts on lavish parties just to get the material for her work. She has her eye on the new journalist and widower Phillip Schuyler Green (Gregory Peck) who has the impossible task about writing about anti-Semitism when he himself is a Gentile. He also has his heart set on the publisher's divorced niece (Dorothy McGuire) who comes from Connecticut high society that doesn't make the whole faking being Jewish any easier. But Anne doesn't pine or push the engaged couple away from one another. Once Phil's childhood friend Dave Goldman moves to New York to find work, she finds herself becoming friends with the married man. While out having a drink with the two men, Dave is attacked which shakes Anne to her core and is the only one to tell Phil that despite Kathy is a hypocrite for not giving Dave and his family her dream cottage, but that the two of them are meant for each other.
