A young wife and her musician hu**and live in poverty in a New York City tenement with an ailing grandmother. The hu**and le*es 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 hu**and happens upon the melee, recognizing the crook who robbed him. Can the hu**and retrieve his money?