Activities at Yoker school, Glasgow; pupils enjoying music and movement lessons, infants singing and dancing in the playground and senior pupils doing Scottish country dancing.
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a drinking problem.
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek vengeance.