 St. Louis, 1905: Parish priest Father Dunne becomes aware of the plight of the city s newsboys, living on pennies and often homeless, and resolves to help them. Through inspired finagling and the gift of the blarney, he organizes a sort of "co-op" orphanage for increasing numbers of boys. Then he s faced with the tougher problem of stopping the escalating violence in inter-paper rivalry for "good corners"...