Rose is one of ten children living in poverty when their home is destroyed by fire. Her father thwarts her dream of being a nurse, refusing to let her work or finish high school. When she leaves home at 18, she goes to Boston and falls in with a dissolute man who lures her into alcohol and immorality. After many years she finally leaves him when he beats her. She goes to Chicago but slides into a worse life of drunkenness. She often goes to jail where a PGM woman visits and takes her to the mission. After many relapses, Rose yields her life to Christ.