6. The story follow Tommy, member of the rambunctious kids gang The Newsboy Legion (rough but good kids who grow up in "Suicide Slum"). Tommy is offered the chance to live with a millionaire, which offers a new life but means leaving his friends behind.

7. As part of his new life as an adopted rich kid, Tommy has to adopt the mannerism and dress of the rich. When his slum buddies of Newsboy Legion send him a jacket, he has to reject it because it bears the markers of his now shameful class origins which he is trying to erase.