 Family Gertz live in a tenement room.Below them live the Couöahans, a crude family.Tom loves Cora but she don t like his family.After time she agree and marry him and lives with his whole family.When Toms father died he became a drunkard and when Mrs Coulahan dies all the household is upon Cora.Hans a friend from Germany come to looks after her.Tom want to rob him.Cora takes medicine to commit suicide.Tom bullies her to help him robbing Hans.But Tom fills the glass with Coras suicide potion and drinks it down.Cora and Hans are happily reunited.