On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs       Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having       When the rude and unfriendly Mr       Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject       Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr       Bert Easter       She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her      　　The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business       Mrs       Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home       He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs       We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window       Maurrant runs out with a gun       He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife      　　Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police       He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent       Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses       Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city       Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple       Rose walks off down the street by herself