Alice lives in Wexfordshire, Ireland, and she is a sales clerk at Mrs. Kelly's grocery store. Mrs. Kelly is selfish and mean, relying on the old and selling the old, she often makes it difficult for customers and treats employees badly.
Alice is not willing to live in this closed town for the rest of her life, nor is she willing to continue to endure Mrs. Kelly's eccentric temper. She decided to follow her sister's arrangement, quit her job, and with the help of Father Frode, moved to the United States to start a new life.
The first time Alice went out alone, she was hit by a big storm, seasick and dizzy, and the passengers in the next cabin also occupied their common bathroom.
The girl in the same cabin helped her get back to the bathroom, taught her makeup, and taught her how to be a passenger recognized by the Americans.
Fletcher helped her find a place to live in Mrs. Keo's house and a counter job at Bartoche's.
She is taciturn and well-behaved, and is the favorite of Lady Keo's female tenants. But she couldn't adapt to the lifestyle and pace of work in Brooklyn, New York's busiest district.
When she first received a letter from her hometown sister, she couldn't help herself sadly. The stewardess of Bartoches called Father Fred, who introduced her to work.
The priest apologized for his negligence, relieved Alice of homesickness, and funded brooklyn night school to enroll her in a course in bookkeeping.
Convinced to try to integrate into the lives of the locals, Alice attends Father Flide's charity party at Christmas and goes to the parish hall with the girls in the dorm room to attend a dance every Saturday.
With the help of Patti and Diana, she changes her makeup and meets Tony, a sincere, humorous Italian boy.
Tony introduced her to her parents and brothers, allowing her to find a sense of belonging in Brooklyn and making her confident, cheerful, and coping in her job.
Miss McAdam was about to move in with her sister in Manhattan, and her room was the best of Mrs. Keo's tenants, with a separate door. Mrs. Keo liked Alice's character and let her stay in that room.
Alice passed the bookkeeping exam at night school and received her diploma. She was diligent and frugal, not only to pay off the tuition that Father Fletcher had paid for her, but also, like her sister, to find a white-collar job at the Brooklyn Textile Factory.
Her life slowly entered the track, but the bad news of her sister's sudden death came from Ireland. Alice was unable to attend her sister's funeral, so she took a long vacation as soon as possible and rushed to her mother, who was suffering from the loss of her daughter.
Fearing that Alice would never return, Tony proposed to her before she left, and he would build a new house for them and start their own plumbing company.
In order to soothe Tony's mood, Alice secretly takes him to her bedroom and has a relationship with him.
Nancy has been Alice's best friend since she was a child, and she will hold her wedding to George on the twenty-eighth of this month. She sincerely invited Alice and hoped that she would also witness the happiest moment of her life.
After the mother lost her eldest daughter Rose, she always wanted to keep Alice by her side. She asked Alice to take over Rose's bookkeeping job and arranged for her to marry Jim, the richest man in town.
Alice slowly immersed herself in all that her mother had to offer her. Jim is calm and gentlemanly, and every day after she finishes Mr. Davis's work, she goes out with Jim.
Tony had been expecting letters from Alice, and he would send her a letter almost every day, but he never got any information from Alice.
Jim's parents will move to the country to vacate the largest mansion in Wexfordshire for their marriage, and everyone thinks that Alice will stay and complete the wedding with Jim, even Alice herself.
Mrs. Kelly orders the employee Mary to take Alice to her house anyway.
Mrs. Brady's niece, who is also married to Brooklyn, reveals to her aunt that Alice and Tony have already registered their marriage. Mrs. Kelly learns the inside story from Mrs. Brady's population, and threatens Alice's reputation in the town, and will never let her live so well.
Alice was furious, she was no longer as presumptuous as she had been as an employee of Mrs. Kelly, and she shot into Mrs. Kelly's heart and laughed at how despicable her behavior was.
Alice suddenly realized that she had been out for many years, had long forgotten the customs and customs of the town, and was completely immersed in the perfect life that her mother had created for her. Mrs. Kelly's rudeness and shamelessness reminded her of the days she had lived before in Wexfordshire.
She left Mrs. Kelly's house and went straight to the nearest phone booth to book a ticket to return to Brooklyn early the next morning.
That night, she and her mother said goodbye and told her all her experiences in Brooklyn. The mother gave up, and finally with tears in her eyes, hoping that her daughter could live a happy life.
Alice once again embarked on the passenger ship to Brooklyn, this time no longer as childish as the first time, and even taught her about the experience of moving to Brooklyn to the girls in her travels.
As soon as she arrived in Brooklyn, she came to the front door of Tony's studio. Tony walked out of the room and saw Alice across the road, excited, and his wait was finally answered at this moment.