With her shy smile and kind nature, Alice Jacobs wins the hearts of the Arnold family. Decent and well respected Tom and Nancy Arnold have raised two very different sons: Frank and Joe. Frank is a devious, brutal man, determined to have Alice for himself. So Joe, who has himself fallen in love with her, leaves home when they become engaged and only reluctantly returns to become best man at their wedding. But on Alice and Frank's wedding night, Frank shows his true colours ...