Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 Girl at a corner bar on Chicago\'s northwest side.
When aloof Inspector Clive Howard appears on the scene, Henrietta ag.
Henrietta is eventually persuaded to take a job as a taxi dancer at a local dance hall--and just when she\'s beginning to enjoy herself, the floor matron turns up dead.
It\'s 1935, but things still aren\'t looking up since the big crash and her father\'s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings.
Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 Girl at a corner bar on Chicago\'s northwest side