To their friends and neighbors, Grace and John Remington (Norma Talmadge and Ralph Lewis) are a perfectly respectable upper-middle-class married couple. But the audiences knows that the Remingtons are harboring a dark secret: Several years earlier, both Grace and John had been hard-bitten criminals. The couple decided to go straight for the sake of their three children, but a former cohort, Jimmy Briggs (Eugene Pallette) threatens to blow their cover unless he's paid a huge amount of hush money. Things shift into high dramatic gear when John is forced to participate in a robbery to save Grace from going back to prison. Logic was not the strong suit of Going Straight, but the stars carried the material quite efficiently.