An idealistic newspaper editor contends with a personal crisis when his brother announces engagement to a wealthy family's daughter, forcing a collision between political convictions and family loyalties. Office scenes introduce colleagues and a young working woman, setting up contrasts between fashionable privilege and self-supporting modesty. The narrative examines class tensions, ideological labels, and the difficulty of keeping public principles intact amid private relationships, blending social satire with sympathetic portrayals of reformist ideals and everyday human complications.