Follows the story of Ruth Ellis: her lifestyle as a young nightclub manageress, her violent relationship with the man she then killed in cold blood, her arrest, trial, and subsequent legal battle to get her release before she was hanged.。女主是亿万富翁的女儿,一夜之间失去了所有,父母被谋杀,姑姑和表妹霸占了她家的财产,为了复仇,她从表妹的男友身上开始下手,用一份他爸爸所犯错误的罪证胁迫他与自己结婚,然而在朝夕相处中,两人渐渐产生了爱情,这段扭曲的婚姻究竟该何去何从呢?。