Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O’Mara. O’Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.

The car won’t work and the boys are apparently out a bundle. A car collector happens on the scene and offers to buy it at a premium. The “collector” is an escaped lunatic.