During one of her blackouts, Charity McAdams Farnese walks into a downtown bar named Duo''s and into the life of Joe Doyle, second-rate piano player and a man with a bum heart. Yancy the bartender knows that she''s trouble, a rich girl with an itch, but Joe won''t listen. All he knows is that Charity wants to love him. But Charity has a husband Oliver Alton Farnese. Oliver is a creature of habit and allows Charity her flings. But when this fling turns serious, Oliver has his own way of dealing with the situation.