Teenager covers for his no-count older brother. Ice-cream parlors, rock-n-roll dances, football games, jalopies and racing cars. Also tragedy.

A young man eagerly prepares for triumph as a boxer in a neighborhood gym with the firm intention of escaping poverty to marry his girlfriend, who sings in a nightclub.

Dying woman refuses to surrender to her unnamed movie disease until she can help her children through the big, big problems each one is facing.

Daniel, the leader of a criminal youth gang, views new guy Victor first as a threat, then as possible addition to his gang. When Victor refuses, but sets his eyes on Daniel's Sister Nancy, Daniel orders her to get close to Victor so she can persuade him to join the gang. Daniel does not expect that instead the relationship with Victor makes Nancy longing for a life without crime. A juvenile-delinquent-crime-musical!