Ellie Hatfield is a victim... she just doesn't know it yet. Virtually isolated in the still-unfamiliar South California society, she has no-one to turn to when she finds herself pregnant. The word in their little Baptist church, where her husband is minister, is that she committed adultery after discovering her husband to be sterile. As her pregnancy progresses, she finds herself ostracized from church society. And soon... not even her husband believes her.