A stenographer who is fond of dancing in a posh Broadway cabaret becomes involved with her wealthy employer. When he attacks her in a roadhouse, she escapes through a window, and soon after, he dies of a heart attack. Meanwhile, the wealthy man's son, who frequents the same cabaret, falls in love with a woman of the world. Bored with her older companion, the woman attaches herself to the boy until his money starts to run low. To hold her attentions, the boy attempts to rob a bank but is arrested and sent to prison for a year. Finally, the woman returns to her old paramour and the boy to his mother.