Has beautiful Julie Benton married a murderer, an insanely jealous man who killed her first husband in hopes of marrying her? When Julie learns the answer is yes, she escapes him in a desperate attempt to forge a new life, taking a job as a stewardess. But her husband has no intention of letting Julie go, ever.

Set in the 1950s, a successful player for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team attempts to balance domestic life, and service to God and country, after suddenly becoming active for the U.S Air Force and being promoted to commanding a bomber crew.