An aspiring artist, Joe Larrabeen from the Midwest and Delia Caruthers, a young talented musician meet in New York in an atelier where a number of youthful artists have met to discuss composers and painter. There they are attracted to each other; shortly thereafter, they marry. Living in a "lonesome flat" does not matter to Joe and Delia, for they are happy and in love. "They had their Art, and they had each other.