As she walks to her office, a marriage broker sumbles on a thin, young woman crouched in a dark corner of a New York alleyway. The young woman is shivering as the broker kindly asks "How can I assist you?" The woman answers that she has nowhere to go, no family, no job and no where to sleep. "Let me help" the broker says, assisting the woman upright and taking her to the broker's office. So starts the saga of Anna Johnson.