Winifred Lenihan

Le procureur de district adjoint de New York, Howard Malloy, travaille dur sur une enquête sur une série de meurtres liés à un groupe extrémiste.

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.