Un magasinier sans le sou, et jeune père d'un enfant asthmatique, n'a pas assez d'argent pour acheter des médicaments pour son fils. Il mise alors sa paye au poker pour tenter de se sortir de la misère...

An old warehouse worker dreams of saving enough money to return to his native Ireland, but it would seem unlikely. A young man who also works there is in a bad fix, he too has little money but his baby is sick and needs medicine he can't afford. He gambles with the dock workers and loses what little he had. Meanwhile, the old man discovers he has a valuable dollar with the winning serial number in a newspaper contest.