Plot Summary:A veteran of World War I returns to the United States but cannot find his place in the society. For a small robbery he is condemned to ten years of prison...
It is 1922. Robert Elliot Burns is having flashbacks of the horrors of World War I and is on the streets protesting for himself angry at his inability to find a job and society's apathy towards veterans. The next day, he is at his parents' home and his brother Vincent, a minister, tries to console him. Elliot says he's had enough and wants to go down to Florida to find work.