After Tomorrow (1932)

In the Depression Pete and Sidney are good kids working hard giving money to their parents and engaged for three years while they save to get married Each has a selfish mother Sydneys is cold Petes is clingy Sidneys mother is looking for her own happiness no matter how much that search harms her daughter and longsuffering husband and the longer the engagement lingers the more pressure Petes mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free After Tomorrow is Pete and Sidneys favorite song but with illness poverty and temptation will that good day ever come