Designer Teresa Balive works in a department store, which Carol Eard once visited in search of a Christmas gift for her daughter. Teresa is fascinated by this woman and begins to follow Carol everywhere, whose life as a suburban housewife is as routine as Teresa’s job. The women fall in love with each other and soon embark on a trip across the USA, but Carol’s husband sends a private detective after them. Carol has to choose between her daughter and her lover…