Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall different girls, though Charlies has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it a policeman, and later throws his girls friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen.