Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Ursula Jeans
as Lorna Blake
Jean Simmons
as Jay Blake
Cecil Parker
as Sir Halmar Barnard
Joan Miller
as Susan
Edward Underdown
as Neil Inglefield
Susan Hampshire
as Young Jay
Jill Raymond
as Molly Blake
Ruth Dunning
as Shirley Dennison
