The Spirit World. But when playing with her friends proves to be too tempting, the garden goes to seed, prompting a story from Plato about the importance of responsibility. Now, Voyager Charlotte Vale is so dominated by her overbearing and insensitive mother that she suffers a complete nervous breakdown. On the recommendation of her psychiatrist Dr. Jasquith, she decides to take a long cruise. On board ship Charlotte meets and falls in love with Jerry Durrance, but he is trapped in an unhappy marriage by a wife he no longer loves and a neurotic daughter whom he feels unable to help.
Charlotte returns home and is soon engaged to another man.
When she breaks off the engagement, Charlotte quarrels bitterly with her mother, who suffers a heart attack and dies. Full of guilt, Charlotte has another breakdown and returns to Dr. Jasquith's retreat for help. There she meets a lonely girl who reminds her of herself. She discovers that the girl, Tina, is Jerry's daughter. Charlotte befriends Tina, which does them both good.