内尔在埃迪叔叔的帮助下去酒店帮忙照顾客人的孩子,她需要一份工作已经很久了,因此很感激埃迪叔叔。外表温顺,乖巧的内尔哄小女孩睡觉后,被女主人的珠宝首饰和漂亮衣服深深地吸引。此时,和女朋友闹别扭的飞行员杰德回到房间,看到窗户对面穿着华丽、正翩翩起舞的内尔。不久,杰德发现内尔的思维有问题,后来埃迪告诉他,他的男朋友死于空难,她经受不住打击,从此精神错乱,在医院治疗了三年后刚出院,家人希望她换个新环境,将她送到纽约。没想到她的病依旧没有好,她行为不端且具有暴力倾向,人们只好将她再次送入医院。Airline pilot Jed stays at the New York hotel where girlfriend Lyn is a singer. He sees Nell in a window opposite his and they get chummy. When the girl she's baby-sitting, Bunny, enters Nell goes crazy and sends her to her room. She fantasizes that Jed is her long lost fiance. Jed comes to realize that Nell is more than a little whacko.