"Joe Nobody" is here a Greenwich Village bachelor (Fairbanks) who attempts to win the love of a do-gooder by helping her to do good. The lady in question has the idea that poor children can be made into "proper citizens" if exposed periodically to the homes of the wealthy. To this end, our hero invites rich patrons to his flat, but his soirées end prematurely in disaster. Charlie Chaplin makes an appearance, as himself, doing party tricks.