A former gun-moll becomes the reluctant guardian of a young boy who has become the target of a mob hit after witnessing the murder of his parents. Gloria has just been released from a prison term served to protect her ex-lover, but when she returns to New York she discovers that boyfriend Kevin doesn't want to know, and worse, that the mob are after her. She isn't keen to look after little Nicky, but he has no-one else and he is being chased by the same gangsters that are after her. Together, each can help give the other a second chance at life.