In a large metropolitan department store, owner Mr. Morris employs paroled ex-convicts as a chance for redemption. Among them are Helen and Joe, who work as sales clerks and secretly fall in love. Joe proposes, but Helen is still on parole and forbidden to marry. However, she agrees and they get married, living a poor but happy life until Joe discovers her past lies. Heartbroken, he leaves Helen and rejoins his old gang, plotting to rob the department store.
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A kind-hearted department store owner provides a second chance to former inmates by employing them, but one of his new hires orchestrates a scheme with fellow ex-cons to steal from the very store that gave them a chance at redemption.