A preteenage Jewish girl from Poland, living a difficult early life in lower Manhattan, who, years later is blessed with a happy, contented, wonderful life with a loving husband and two young children, unexpectedly comes face to face with the nightmare of early widowhood after a nine-year marriage, finding herself penniless, and learning to survive with dignity and with one goal—dedicating herself in keeping her children together, not for want of anything, and successfully meeting many of life’s struggles.