Plot
Maggie Wilson joins the staff of a California institution for wayward girls, run by the stern Mrs. Nichols. A new arrival, Betsy Abel, hates her mother and has a two-month-old baby of her own, refusing to identify the father. "Greeneyes", one of the girls, is due to be released in a few weeks. Her boyfriend Cliff is a former drug addict, determined to stay clean. The girls at the institution bond, particularly when Betsy's mother visits, threatening to put the baby up for adoption unless Betsy names the father so he can pay for the baby's support. The mother is unaware her own boyfriend impregnated her daughter. Betsy's mother has brought the baby to the school during her visit and has left it in the car. One of the girls takes the child and all the girls in the school band together to care for it in secret. They keep the baby hidden for 10 days, but Maggie finally finds the baby and agrees to let them keep it through Christmas, only three days away. The next day, however, on Maggie's day off, the baby is discovered by Mrs. Nichols, who has it taken away. As the baby is driven off to an orphanage, the girls start a full-scale riot and destroy the school. Greeneyes is given a six-month extension to her sentence, against Maggie's recommendation. Greeneyes escapes, but she and Cliff rob a store and, when they are chased by police, they are killed. ==Cast==