After picking up a hitchhiker, respectable schoolteacher Jill Eikenberry is raped and becomes pregnant. Because shes a devout Catholic (and former nun for good measure) she decides to have the child which means that her spiteful School Governors try to sack her for immorality.
As usual, theres an ideal lawyer, who doubles up as an inspiration former pupil, to shepherd the heroine through the big court case (have the good guys ever lost in an American TV movie?) and along the way a lot of tears, heartache and pauses where the commercial breaks should be.