Beatrice Roberts

When a steel magnate dies, his entitled son is forced to prove himself with a year of tough, on-the-job training in the mill if he wants to inherit it.

On a transcontinental flight from New York City to Los Angeles, Joan Lawson, the flight hostess, attracts the attention of a movie producer, Dave Miller, and he tries to persuade her to sign a movie contract.

To toughen up his pampered son, a New York millionaire sends the young man to one of his lumber camps out West helmed by a double-dealing local boss.

This year’s reunion for a group of childhood friends who grew up together in the slums is interrupted by a murder, a coverup and the fallout of both.