A teenager escapes from a reformatory which is like a penitentiary.He is taken in by a nice itinerant musician .Unfortunately, there's a theft in the busker's landlady's house and the adolescent is immediately the ideal suspect for his mother sent her to the reformatory ,because of pilfering.But the accused boy investigates and discovers that the culprit is the landlady's own nephew .Thus his mother understands that her duty is to take her boy back home.