"Aunt" Emma Bates (ZaSu Pitts), a single middle-aged woman from the country, travels to the big city to watch her former lover's son, Mickey (Bud McTaggart), fight in a boxing match. At the fight, she meets Terry (Roger Pryor), a newspaper reporter investigating Mickey's corrupt manager, Gus Hammond (Douglas Fowley). But, when Hammond mistakes Emma for a notorious mob hit woman, he kidnaps Mickey. With Terry's help, Emma pretends to be a gangster in order to rescue Mickey.