在试图欺骗一个已经运气不佳的人以赢得职场竞争后,一个能说会道的电话推销员会发现他正处于是否能通过谈话摆脱人质的处境,因为他自己的生命危在旦夕……。This first film version of "The Children's Hour" uses a heterosexual triangle rather than the play's lesbian theme. The plot concerns schoolteachers Karen Wright and Martha Dobie, both of whom are in love with Dr. Joe Cardin. The malicious lie of one of their students involves all three in a scandal which disrupts all their lives.。