After receiving a frantic telephone call from her actress-sister, Merry Anders, a nurse, arrives in Hollywood to find the girl murdered. Ken Scott, the police sergeant called in on the case, had been divorced by the murdered woman ten months earlier and he is astounded to find that she had a child. Unable to find a clue as to his child's whereabouts. Ken and Merry unite to track down clues, starting with the sleeping pill bottle, which came from the society hospital run by Oscar Beregi. Unable to learn anything about his wife from Beregi, Scott pursues other clues while Merry applies for a job as nurse at the hospital. She finds a file record of her late sister's case but is discovered by an orderly. Later, Scott learns that his child was sold in a black market deal but, when he visits the now-devoted foster parents, he decides to leave the child with them. Scott and Merry fall in love.