Daisy was tough, big and loving. One night she is cornered by three drunken sailors. Afterwards they pay her and she realises that she has found a job that will enable her to survive. She is the Nan of her poverty-stricken family and devoted friend of Nellie O'Brien, who is dying from lack of medical attention. She is always desperate for money. Fighting competition, weeping at her own suffering, laughing with her clients, she becomes the toast of the waterfront and earns enough money to buy medical attention for her friend. She manages to hide her occupation from her family, but when her stoker husband returns from sea she realises, terror-stricken, that the moment of truth has arrived. Reality at its best. Used