The story documents Mary Astor's fight to maintain child custody of her daughter with her physician husband. Both Mary and her husband had extramarital love affairs outside of their marriage, her husband's actually producing a pregnancy which he ended in an abortion. This was complicated by the fact that she kept a lifelong diary which included details of her sex life and marriage which her husband stole from a locked cabinet and used to blackmail her during child custody fight.

Mentions alcohol use and drunkenness.