Employed as a maid to support her mother, Jennie Marsh is escorted home from a dance by Dan Bolton. He robs the house of her employer, Mrs. Sanford, while she is making a call there, and unjustly accused of the theft, she is sent to a reformatory. When her mother dies, Jennie becomes embittered against the world and swears vengeance on the woman who treated her unjustly. Upon her release she goes to the city, where she is aided by "Silent" McKay, a burglar who takes her to Mother De Vere's boarding-house, a hangout for criminals. There she meets young Sanford and plans to frame him for a robbery as her revenge. Eventually, she falls in love with young Sanford, relents when he is falsely accused of murder, and forgives his mother.