It is a story that proves how the greatest harm a rich man may do his children, is to leave them his money or not leave them his money? Kit is the telling of two love-stories of a young American and his sister, reared in luxury and suddenly left without means by their father. He feels that money was proving their ruination and disinherited them for their own sakes. Here is their struggle for life, love and happiness and it makes a powerful love-story of the middle West.