David Aldrich aspires to be an author. The publishers reject most of his manuscripts because they seem to lack realism. David struggles on, however, determined to succeed and kept happy by his love for Helen Chambers and for his bosom friend Morton, who is a young minister working among the people on the East Side.

• Premo Film Corporation
• Robert Warwick
• Vernon Steele
• Anna Q. Nilsson
• Christine Mayo
• Dion Titheradge
• Jessie Lewis
• Robert Forsyth