The curmudgeonly “Min” (Marie Dressler) owns a rundown hotel slap bang in the middle of the docks, where she has raised the foundling “Nancy” (Dorothy Jordan) with the help of the mischievous “Bill” (Wallace Beery). The thing is, now that “Nancy” is nearing her adulthood she is attracting the attention of some of the sailors - and that’s just the start of her adopted mother’s issues. The reappearance of the dissolute “Bella” (Marjorie Rambeau) also sets some cats amongst the pigeons as she happens to be the real mother of the girl and is determined to leave with something: either her child or ...