Laurie Heineman

Troubled garment manufacturer Harry Stoner tries to make his small debt-ridden factory survive, hires an arsonist to burn down a building so Harry can collect the insurance money, he pimps for clients, and has flashbacks to the war.

After being in the wrong place at the wrong time, a naïve farm girl moves to Chicago, where she becomes trapped in a vicious cycle of prostitution and crime abetted by John Dillinger.