Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, dote in their union, Rhoda -- as does Monica Breedlove, their lonely landlady. But Rhoda loves to accumulate gift ideas, whether given or stolen, in her own room and comes with a secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her understanding of her son's darker side to himself, however her selfdeception unravels when a school mate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously.