Johnny Kelly (Gig Young) is a man in crisis. He's a second generation Chicago cop disillusioned with his job, his marriage and his prospects who seeks solace in a nightclub dancer and direction in a kingpin lawyer with underworld connections. It's a path to nowhere which on one Windy City night intersects with a convergence of disparate denizens no less in crisis and perhaps far less centered in their own realities. Mala Powers displays her versatility as the aging nightclub vamp. Edward Arnold, William Talman (Perry Mason) and Marie Windsor intrigue in a villainous tryst. Chill Wills serves as the conscience of a cop. And the man in the window is metaphor for the human experience.