Joan runs away from home and becomes a cashier at a restaurant, but quits when the manager attempts to make love to her. She meets Louie, with whom she was once friendly, and he forces her to steal for him. She is caught and sentenced to a state reformatory.—Ulf Kjell Gür

Joan Darby spends most of her time in the streets, when not delivering laundry. In order to earn enough money to buy a new dress, Joan promotes a boxing match between Kid Maguire and the leader of an opposing gang. Absconding with the receipts from the match, Joan goes to the city where she obtains a job as a stenographer. Years later, she again meets Maguire who threatens to expose her unless she assists him in a holdup. Joan reluctantly agrees, is caught, and sentenced to the reformatory. En route, she leaps from the train and is rescued by Bertram Van Twiller, a wealthy young man who offers her the refuge of his home. At a ball, Joan again meets Maguire who, having stolen one of the guests' necklaces, forces his former accomplice to conceal it. Van Twiller, upon discovering the transaction, accuses Joan of the crime until he overhears her arguing with Maguire and realizes that she has been the robber's unwilling victim.—Pamela Short

Joan Darby as the drudge for a washerwoman, delivering the clean linen and collecting soiled clothes, but she aspires to higher things and promotes a prize fight between the leaders of two rival gangs. She appropriates the gate receipts, and when her mistress sees the money she accuses her of theft. Joan runs away. She is doing well for herself, when one of the gang leaders discovers her and forces her to aid his nefarious schemes, but she gets into society in evading the reform school and finds real happiness.—Moving Picture World synopsis