La Fleur Rouge The Red Rose written by Ruthe Ogilvie, Hilary Simone, 23 writes a beautiful musical and title, The Ginger Jar. She becomes engaged to the foremost writer of musical of the country-Gregory Wilcox, to help her instead he steals it and renames it and publish his name as the composer. He threatens her life if she exposes him, she discovers he stole every musical he put his name on.
Hilary turns to jennifer Gordon, a beautiful black woman and her former dorm mate in college who advises her to call Jay Stewart, Greg's Producer. Jay doesn't believe when she tells him Greg stole her musical, it becomes a smash hit on broadway under the name of The Pepper Pop with Greg's name on it as the author and the composer.
Greg hires a detective, Zack Davis to follow her every where. When she's found, Greg was his lies as her fired from every job and evicted from every apartment. In desperation, Hilary changes her name to Hildy Swenson.