Stacy Palmer is on the run and tries to lose herself in a crowd at a Las Vegas casino. Young Jake Cobb, out on one last fling before his marriage, is attracted to Stacy.

Tyro screenwriter Joel Coles makes a fool of himself at a Hollywood party, and finds out a few hard truths about life in the movie business.

Carol Lynley plays a deaf woman who teaches at a school for the deaf. Peter Falk also plays a deaf character who is smitten with her, and misinterprets her kindness toward him as affection. Falk is unable to communicate with her and is completely helpless and frustrated by the hearing world. This frustration eventually erupts into an act of violence that shatters everyone's lives.

Ten years as a prisoner of the Chinese Reds hasn't made the folks in John Reardon's home town feel any differently about him - they still remember when he was the town hellion. (Several well known stars made cameo appearances.

In 1912, immigrants Eric Tegman and John Michael Reardon purchase some land in California's San Fernando Valley - infuriating native son Dan Corbett, who wanted the property for his ranch.

Night-club owner Charlie Harris is in love with singer Linda Baxter, but that means trouble for her --- gambling king Louis Samson is threatening her life as a way of cutting himself in on Charlie's business.

Paul Oakland is uneasily reunited with his long-unseen son, Nick.