A hopelessly hopeful drifter, a bitter young woman, and a helpless child live on the docks, spending their days in poverty and listless wandering. Overhead, a dredge hauls up mud and trash from the nearby seabed-- the same mud and trash from the day before. They finally decide to leave for the city to seek fulfillment, only to encounter further privation, destitution, temptation.

• Academy Photoplays
• George K. Arthur
• Georgia Hale
• Bruce Guerin
• Otto Matieson
• Nellie Bly Baker
• Olaf Hytten
• Stuart Holmes