Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.

Travaillant dans le même magasin, Joe et Helen, deux condamnés libérés sur parole, sont épris l'un de l'autre. Des deux amants, seul Joe a avoué son passé. Lorsqu'il découvre la vérité sur Helen, trahi et déçu, il se lance par désespoir dans la préparation d'un mauvais coup.