Polly Peabody, the daughter of the Very Reverend Peabody, is eager to bring enlightenment and love to the residents of Trash Can Alley and starts by attempting to clean up the rubbish strewn street of shame. Sweet Polly's good deed though is not exactly welcomed by the rougher elements and she soon falls victim to a henious piece of sploshing involving beans, spaghetti, ketchup, mayonnaise, mushy peas, mashed potatoes and tomatoes leaving poor Polly in a sorry and bedraggled state