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.