Young lawyer Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a threatening note in her apartment.
When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on - involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an internment camp during World War II - may not be ancient history after all. Add to that the fact that everybody around Mary has decided that she's not allowed to be a Young Widow anymore, and is fixing her up with blind dates from hell.
Then a killer comes after her, and it's more than any girl can handle - but not any woman.