Dicky Ecklund é uma lenda do boxe que desperdiçou o seu talento e a sua grande oportunidade para brilhar. Agora, o meio-irmão dele, Micky Ward, vai tentar tornar-se na nova esperança da família e ir até onde Dicky nunca chegou. Mas primeiro, ele vai ter de libertar-se do peso da sua própria mãe, cuja presença histriónica e sufocante o impede de conseguir melhores combates.
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.
A black sheep attempts to eulogize her mother with a story about pigeons.
The love between the only daughter of a chief shepherd and a poor shepherd on the slopes of Mt. Olympus.