Sheila a feisty Irish girl loves Emmett a somewhat shady Irish boy When Emmett goes to America Sheila and her father follow and join him However when he loses his job Sheila is forced to get a job in a cheap restaurant There she meets Rory a poor American boy who works in a shipyard Rory falls in love with her but she still loves Emmett Then she finds out that Emmett has been taking up with a brassy flapper named Clarice