A few years after Marvin Finn's family comes to Indianapolis from Kentucky, their hope of prosperity is shattered by the Great Depression. Their father, Thomas Marvin leaves to find work in Alabama, and a few months later their mother Fannie Finn is seriously injured. Marvin earns the name of Huck Finn, and he and his brother Tom run the streets of Indianapolis doing odd jobs, and selling junk hoping to rescue their mother and sisters from the grip...