In a New York boarding house, owner Daisy Bowman becomes romantically involved with new tenant Jake while among the other residents taxi driver Eddie, fiancé of Betty, is framed for murder by a gangster and imprisoned without telling Betty. The faithless Jake makes a play for Betty, causing him to quarrel with Daisy. Attempting to strangle her he is shot dead by Betty’s blind son. One of Jake’s cohorts, Pete, tries to take advantage of a drunk Betty but when Daisy tries to intervene, he threatens to tell the police who really killed Jake. Meanwhile, Eddie has been released from jail, he returns to find a drunken Betty with Pete and misunderstands. Jake's brother arrives looking for vengeance and believing Eddie murdered Jake, but Daisy tells him it was Pete. In the ensuing shoot out both are killed, and Daisy helps Eddie and Betty reunite.

Clara Kimball Young
as Daisy Bowman

Marian Nixon
as Betty

Paul Page
as Eddie

Thomas E. Jackson
as Detective

Yola d'Avril
as Pearl

Nellie V. Nichols
as Mrs. Givner

Morgan Wallace
as Jake

Maurice Black
as Pete

Maurice Murphy
as Tommy

Eddie Lambert
as Elmer Givner