A farmer, unhappy with his life, decides to go the city to try and make his fortune. He takes a friend along with him. The two of them become successful, but that success brings other, unforeseen problems into their lives.

John Brand, deeply in love with his wife, becomes money mad with success and grows apart from her. He becomes involved with a married woman at the height of his career. His wife deliberately brings about his financial ruin to save him and they go back to the farm to find real happiness in their poverty.—Motion Picture News Booking Guide, April 1924