Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.