The depression has hit hard, and many are feeling the strain of poverty. A young mother, too young to care for anyone but herself, is at wits’ end.

With her mind made up she abandons her eight-year-old-son, Ronnie, at the Springhill Orphanage in Bozeman, Montana. Meanwhile, Warren Frame, the caretaker of the orphanage who has lost his wife and son, everything in life that he holds dear, lives in sorrow as his life passes him by.