一个年轻的女人正在为谋杀罪受审。镜头闪回，我们得知她努力克服贫困作为一个十几岁的孩子——一个错误的逮捕和监禁盗窃和参与就业导向缺乏长期与歹徒。在妓院里，她遇到了一个年轻的律师，一个富有的和有声望的家族的后裔，他爱上了她并帮助她围着她转的生活。但她的过去赶上她，她必须面对的音乐，而不是导致他丑闻。

A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement with an ailing grandmother. The husband leaves to sell his violin to provide for his wife and grandmother. On his return, he is robbed by a neighborhood gangster. Sometime later in a dance hall, the same gangster gets in an argument with a rival gangster over the musician's wife. the argument foments into a shoot out in Pig Alley. The husband happens upon the melee, recognizing the crook who robbed him. Can the husband retrieve his money?