 Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her straitlaced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen s grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare s own life and of a man she tried to change.