Jon Mirsalis on Piano. Pauline Frederick stars in a surprisingly sober study of the life struggle of the poor in New York. The director, Robert Vignola, knew the subject well from his experience as an Italian immigrant to New York. The story concerns an office scrubwoman, Molly, who is the wife of a drunken loafer and mother of two children. After the death of her husband, killed in a crap game, and one of her children, the film chronicles the relationship between Molly and her son Jimmy, who threatens to duplicate his father's faults, and who manages to go straight only after certain sacrifices on his mother's part. There is a Madame X aspect to this part of the story, which shows Molly sinking lower and lower until she becomes a regular in the worst low-life dives. Variety commented, "It is one of the most artistic and human productions ever turned out by Famous Players (Paramount)."