Port of Call
A melancholic mid-century romance about a troubled woman seeking redemption through love, constrained by social judgment and personal despair.
A suicidal factory girl, just out of reformatory school and anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
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