Candy de Tudelos, the lovely young daughter of a degenerate, self-styled Spanish aristocrat was cloistered from the realities of the world by her lonely existence in an imposing New York mansion. One day she ventured into the sinister house next-door, which her father had peopled with a corrupt and decadent group of associates. There she met an earthy young laborer, and in a brief and bitter love affair learned the meaning of the ugly secrets which had poisoned her life.