Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

• Glynis Johns
• Diana Dors
• John Gregson
• Olive Sloane
• Rachel Roberts
• Jane Hylton
• Athene Seyler
• Sybil Thorndike