A screenwriter is tasked with adapting a trashy novel, and his interactions with a hat-check girl inspire the story. However, when she's murdered, he becomes the prime suspect. He's helped by his neighbor, a charming woman who provides an alibi and eventually becomes his love interest. But will their relationship be threatened by the lingering doubts and dark secrets of the screenwriter's past?

In a Lonely Place
A struggling screenwriter becomes entangled in a murder case, with a friendly neighbor's efforts to exonerate him slowly evolving into uncertainty.