Miriam (Corrine Griffith), a streetwalker, is evicted from her San FRancisco boardinghouse and, down to her last $3, meets Geoffrey Sherwood (Edmund Lowe), an intoxicated socialite trying to forget a broken heart. Geoffrey likes Mariam and, on a whim, takes her to the church where his lost love, Valentine (Kathryn Carver), is being married to wealthy John Moreland (Claude King). Geoffrey becomes greatly attached to Mariam and rents her an apartment.Miriam falls deeply in love with him and becomes desperate when the heartless Valentine vamps her way back into his life. She attempts to return to the streets only to discover that, deeply in love with someone for the first time in her life, she can not give herself to another man. She then contrives to show Geoffrey that Valentine is a schemer who loves only money, and Geoffrey, come at last to his senses , takes Mariam in his arms.
In the sound era the story was filmed once again as The Girl from 10th Avenue starring Bette Davis. The movie, once thought to be lost, survives complete at Cineteca Milano in Italy.