- An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.
- Jean Morin, an industrial designer in Nantes, is unfairly fired by his employer. From then on, he will know many ups and downs. Not finding another job, Jean leaves Nantes for the country where he offers his services as a farm hand. But the locals distrust him and refuse to hire him. Until the day the young man saves the life of Migaut, an old farmer who, out of thankfulness, gives him a job. Jean works hard but Migaut's son, jealous of him, arranges things so that he is discredited. Disgusted, Jean leaves for Paris where he becomes a street hawker. Luck smiles at him again the moment he finds a wallet in the street...—Guy Bellinger
- Jean Morvin, a talented draughtsman, having won the favor of a woman with whom his superintendent is smitten, is forced by the latter into a quarrel over some work and is discharged. Not content with this, and to forestall Jean's wreaking vengeance upon him, the superintendent uses his influence among officials of other manufacturing plants to discredit Morvin and prevent his securing employment and as a result Jean is forced to forsake his profession and seek work of any kind. Going into the country. Jean secures a job as a farmhand, but here his ability and willingness to labor set jealous hearts and heads to work to undermine his success and when he becomes the bone of contention and threatens to disrupt the family relations of the farmer and his two sons, Jean leaves the farm. The little money Jean has saved soon is spent, but still faithful to his ideals and with head high with hope, he journeys to the great City of Paris, where he lands penniless, footsore, ragged and hungry. Many opportunities to steal present themselves to Jean in his hour of need, but he remains firm in his intent to be honest and honorable and watches eagerly for the little chance that will give him a chance. Suddenly he sees it. At the railway depot a traveler emerges loaded with luggage and boards a cab. Jean follows the cab through the principal streets of Paris, past beautiful monuments, many of which he has helped to design, until the cab reaches its destination. Jean carries the baggage upstairs and is rewarded with a few pennies. Greatly delighted, Jean returns to the heart of the city, where he invests his small fortune in an extra edition of the Paris Herald. The papers are quickly sold and Jean finds himself the proud possessor of a pocketful of pennies. For two long years Jean struggles for success and is gaining ground, step by step. Hurrying along the street one day Jean finds a wallet. It contains a fortune in bank notes, some valuable papers and the business cards of the owner, Ernest Preval. Without hesitation, Jean journeys to the address of the loser of the wallet to find it a magnificent villa. Mr. Preval is delighted to have recovered the wallet and declaring his admiration of Jean's honesty, offers him $100 of the money that the wallet contained. This Jean refuses, but intimates his desire to secure steady employment. Preval gladly accedes to his request and gives him a note to the manager of the Preval manufacturing plant. Within a year Jean has attained the secretaryship to Mr. Preval, which position brings him in such constant association with Preval's beautiful daughter, Claire, that he is soon violently in love, but hesitates to speak his dreams. On the occasion of one of Claire's more or less frequent visits to her father's factory, one of the buildings takes fire and the girl is trapped within. Several men, including Jean, go to her assistance, but Jean is first to reach her side and after struggling against smoke and flames, he succeeds in reaching the street with the girl in his arms. Ere the next day's sun has set, Claire gives the life that Jean has saved, into his keeping forever.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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