A young woman responds with deep devotion to her dominating father and upon his death she makes a postmortem discovery of a "secret" about him.

The drab companion of an elderly hypochondriac is transformed into a lovely woman when she falls in love with a young man she met at the opera, but she lies to him about herself, claiming she's the educated daughter of a famed operatic diva.

In order to get his story, a reporter joins an underworld gang.