Despondent over a painful estrangement from his daughter, trainer Frankie Dunn isn’t prepared for boxer Maggie Fitzgerald to enter his life. But Maggie’s determined to go pro and to convince…

An unexpected windfall has unexpected consequences on a Depression era, working class girl.

A husband-and-wife vaudeville team disguise their young son as a girl so he can enter a contest run by a movie studio that’s looking for “a new Shirley Temple”.