The blight of Sylvia Steem's otherwise happy young life, is her husband's crave for drink.

Bill Williams, a poor inventor with a large family, suddenly comes into great wealth through the sale of an invention. Sudden affluence turns his head, and he changes at once from the plodding mechanic of the dingy shop into an ultra-fashionable man of the town.

An Italian laborer is mistakenly accused of kidnapping the child of one of his clients.