A penniless Irishman becomes the business partner of an English aristocrat with a penchant for high-stakes gambling.

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?

A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.