When he and his father quarrel over the plight of the poor, he leaves home and goes to live and work in a settlement house.

Geraldine "Jerry" Keen, known in the papers as the "Billion Dollar Baby", is a rich twenty-year-old heiress, who has just inherited her father's fortune.

However, the control of the empire is in the hands of Clifton Brophy, the executor of the father's estate, until she reaches her 21st birthday.

Unbeknownst to Brophy, "Jerry" disguises herself in the clothes of one of the poor, and heads back to the settlement house, where she begins to work in the evenings.

Alden intervenes, saving Brophy, but in the skirmish he is hit in the head by a brick and taken to the hospital.

The film was one of several based on the poetry of Ella Wheeler Wilcox,[2] of which Metro owned all the rights to.

They found fault with the production, stating that "It was tiresome, slow, confusing, unreal, uninteresting -- and about everything else uncomplimentary that could be said."