A hungry tramp tries to steal money from a newsboy, but changes his mind. He considers suicide, but the newsboy gives him money to eat. They both sleep in the street. The tramp begins to work at odd jobs; then he gets hired as a delivery man. He meets a washer-woman. The tramp and the boy rent an apartment. The tramp saves the life of a rich man's little daughter when she falls out of a window. He is rewarded for his pains and can set up house with the washer-woman.
Of this film, Marguerite Engberg writes: "In terms of both form and content, it is inferior to the films offered by foreign companies, so it was not hard to understand that Ole Olsen wanted a new artistic director." Viggo Larsen had directed nearly all the fiction films made by Nordisk until this point, but he soon left for a successful career as actor-director in Germany.
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