Helen Huntington

JB Ball, un financier milliardaire, en a assez de sa famille et plus particulièrement de son épouse dispendieuse. Au cours d'une dispute conjugale, excessivement violente, il s'empare du manteau de vison, très cher et juste acquis, de sa femme et le lance par-dessus le balcon de sa luxueuse demeure. Il atterrit sur la jeune Mary Smith, qui passait par là. Pauvre, travaillant dur, Mary n'hésite guère devant ce don du ciel. Elle s'en revêt et constate qu'on la prend dorénavant pour la moitié du milliardaire. Décidant de vivre conformément à son statut elle se rend à la Bourse, où elle réussit à provoquer un krach. D'aventures catastrophiques en soirées mondaines, Mary rencontre le fils du milliardaire. Le coup de foudre est immédiat...

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.