New England fisherman Parnell Sullivan (Bosco) suffers a heart attack while at sea and is flown to the New York hospital for attention. Although without funds Mary comes down from Boston with the couple's young children, Jimmy (Billy McNally), Maeve (Peggy Burke) and Molly (Sue Ann Crawford), planning to lodge them in hotel lobbies and bus stations. Nurse Thorpe, her sympathies aroused by the family's predicament, places the mother and her children in her own hospital-owned quarters, an act which arouses the hostility of the apartment-house superintendent, Durkin.