Mammy options Al Jolson because the star of a travelling minstrel present, showing in a small Southern city. Jolson falls in love with an actress within the troupe (Lois Moran), however she loves one other. One in every of Jolson's fellow minstrels (Lowell Sherman) is shot backstage, and it's assumed because of a number of plot convolutions that Jolson is responsible of the deed.
