Given a second chance after her arrest for prostitution, Mae decides to go straight. Mae is soon befriended by kindly cab driver Jimmy Doyle who gets her work at a diner, where she meets Gert, another former prostitute. Mae and Jimmy fall in love, marry and save to buy a small business. Gert then pleads for money from Mae, which results in her unwitting involvement in a crime. Believing Mae has lied and cheated him, Jimmy threatens to leave her.

Jimmy (Pat O'Brien), un honrado taxista que trabaja duramente para conseguir un jornal que apenas le llega para vivir, conoce a Mae (Carole Lombard), una prostituta, a la que confunde con una taquígrafa desempleada. Después de contraer matrimonio, el pasado de Mae vuelve para atormentarla, impidiendo la total felicidad de la pareja...