 Jack Shannon recognized that he was turning into the kind of man he had grown up hating. A workaholic Philadelphia lawyer, Jack brought home the big bucks and the lifestyle that went with it. But as he put it. "I treated my wife badly and I knew it and one day she walked. She took my daughter with her." The heartbroken Shannon became a compulsive gambler, which drained his fortune and ruined his legal career. Now Jack is back, running a one-man low-rent law office with a part-time secretary who bartered her labor for Jack s services in getting her boyfriend out of jail. He s trying to regain his daughter s love and trust, and doing his best to resist temptation.