Winifred Lenihan

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.

New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy launches an investigation into a series of murders related to a neo-fascist organisation.