[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine review,[4] Tom and Grace Tucker have been married a year.

Tom consoles her by the promise of what he will achieve by a prospective big business deal.

However, the inexperience of their maid Hattie makes the dinner less than ideal, and the arrival of Dick Loring and a chance conversational slip by Grace threatens to spoil the deal.

Tom gets drunk, but closes the deal with Mr. Barstow, follows his wife, and they are reconciled.

Prints of The First Year exist at the Museum of Modern Art and George Eastman House.