After his wife's sudden death, a man's life falls apart and he becomes a derelict. However, he starts to redeem himself when he comes across a young couple who is about to lose their property, and he decides to help them.
A story of reciprocated kindness in an unkind world. After the death of his wife, Olaf became a wanderer in search of kindness. In his travels he meets but one kind person, the homesteader's wife. She gives him food and in return he saves the homesteader and his family from the artful land-grabbers. But in their joy they forget Olaf and he again becomes a wanderer.—Moving Picture World synopsis