Family melodrama. Newspaperman Brad Sheridan (Milland) and his wife Midge (Tierney) are dismayed by the long adoption process so when Brad learns a baby has been abandoned at the police station, he and Midge offer to care for the tyke. Brad gets obsessed with finding out about the boy's parentage, which doesn't put him in a good light with adoption supervisor Mrs. Morrow (Bainter) and Midge may lose the baby she's come to love.