A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood. However, after the boy graduates he comes home and announces that he plans to begin a practice on wealthy Park Avenue to cater to the rich and powerful, in order to make the kind of money that will impress his new upper-class girlfriend.