Elizabeth Lange and her exotic sister, Leila, flee from Kentucky to New York to escape the dirt and drunkenness of their mother and her drunken boyfriends Leila becomes a successful actress and the horrors of the past begin to fade only to be replaced by an even greater disaster Leila is murdered and the chief witness for the prosecution is her sister She goes to a spa to relax before the trial and finds someone is determined whe will not live to testify