There is no love like a mothers for her child . . .Little Billy, Pollys son, is the light of her life. Its for his sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and life on an isolated farm. When Billy is knocked down by a car, his father is killed attempting to save his life, and Polly, cast off by her husbands family, is left with a child who may never walk or talk again.