A man dismisses his physician's advice to rest, urgently ordering a search for an unknown woman from a past banquet, insisting it will continue for years. Three months later, a woman named Charlotte is discovered to be pregnant out of wedlock. Confronted by her family, she admits she doesn't know who the father is. Deemed a disgrace to the Harrington family name, she is immediately thrown out of the house, harshly told she was never one of them. Alone and clutching a personal item, she grapples with the life-altering consequences of keeping her unborn child.