Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer along with her friends, Nickie and Helene.   She longs for love, but has bad luck with men, being robbed and pushed off a bridge in Central Park by one ex-boyfriend.  She has another humiliating encounter with Vittorio Vitale, a movie star.   After failing to find a new job through an employment agency, Charity meets shy Oscar Lindquist in a stuck elevator.  They strike up a relationship, but Charity does not reveal what she does for a living.  When she finally does tell Oscar, he initially seems to accept it, but finally tells Charity that he cannot marry her.

The optimistic Charity faces her future, alone for the time being, living hopefully ever after.