Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until they have the money to build a better life. However, he has other ideas.
A young woman's husband has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. In order to be near him to try to help him get his sentence overturned, she moves into a boardinghouse near the prison whose residents are the wives of inmates.
在一家妇产医院，未来的父亲在走廊上步履蹒跚，而妻子则焦急地或快乐地等待婴儿。高效而富有同情心的护士保尔斯小姐使病房运转顺畅。格蕾丝·萨顿因被谋杀而从监狱转移到监狱时，事情变得活跃起来。大多数人都认为她被杀的人应该死，护士保尔斯怜悯地允许格蕾丝的丈夫杰德与妻子有无限的时间。在病房中，妇女对母性的感受各不相同。韦斯特夫人是六个孩子的母亲，她认为婴儿是赋予女性生活意义的要素。相比之下，艳舞女郎佛罗蕾达只是想尽快摆脱双胞胎，雷顿小姐已决定对抚养孩子的意见，无意成为溺爱母亲，妇女们在辩论各种理论时，一个女人想要一个婴儿，以至于她变得痴呆，从另一个病房流连忘返。一名意大利妇女得知自己的新生儿死亡后，悄悄地抽泣
在与杰德感人的告别后，格蕾丝的健康已受到监狱条件的折磨，他被带到劳动室，当杰德焦急地等待时，弗洛雷特对她双胞胎的准养母亲精心策划的计划感到震惊。她自己生一...
