A hospital entertainer volunteers to help a girl who has tried to commit suicide, unaware that he himself is seriously ill.

Tom Desmond is at his wits' end: he has a sick wife, a 3-month-old baby, no source of income and a towering pride that rejects all help.

An insight into Lochner's personal life as Ruth, his ex-wife, and Bobbie, his daughter turn up at the hospital. Now widowed, Ruth Marlowe would like to pick up the pieces of a relationship shattered by an annulment many years before. However, here are obstacles: Ruth's heart condition-and her disapproving daughter.