Luigi starts forth from his humble home to find work. He has a sick baby and there is no money in the house for food or medicine. He helps a swell young fellow who has been drinking too much, into a taxi, and is rewarded with a bill. When Luigi looks at it, he sees it is a hundred dollars. He runs after the taxi, but cannot catch up with it. Deciding that he might as well use it, so long as he has it, he takes it to the grocery store. But the clerk is immediately suspicious, and refuses to have anything to do with the hundred dollar bill. Luigi tries the baker, the butcher and finally the drug store. But no one will touch the money; they are all afraid of it. Returning home in as bad a predicament as ever, he finds his baby worse and rushes out for the charity doctor, who after looking the child over, gives Luigi a prescription and tells him to have it filled at once. The drug clerk not only refuses to change the bill, but he calls a policeman and is about to have Luigi arrested when the young man who was drunk the day before, comes along and recognizes Luigi, and the hundred dollar bill. He tells them the money is good and offers to change it. Luigi, with medicine and a basket of food, rushes home and shows his wife all the money he has left out of the hundred dollar bill.
—Moving Picture World synopsis