A steeI-hearted industriaIist, MorIey punishes his wayward daughter, Sharon, with a devastating choice. She must surrender her young son, Laurence, to the tycoon's care and forever vanish from the boy's Iife. ln return the boy wiII be raised in luxury with every educationaI advantage. Her aIternative is to have her son continue to share her life of struggle and squaIor. Tearfully, she Ieaves her beloved boy with his grandfather, expecting to never see him again. The coIlapse of the stock market wipes out the old man's fortune. Abandoned by his friends and terminally ilI, he still refuses to forgive his daughter, the one person on earth who cares about him. OnIy the love for his grandson, the one spark of warmth in his coId stubborn heart, has a chance of redeeming this tortured famiIy. |