The film opens near the "last stop", a subway terminal (apparently) in Alaska, which appears to be emerging from deep snow in the middle of nowhere.

Thinking the woman is his wife, he begins to cry and shoots the couple, moments later to realize his mistake, whereupon he makes his exit.

She goes to a wall, and a vase drops on her head and knocks her unconscious; Keaton glances at her momentarily without interest, and then goes back to thinking again.

While investigating the shooting of the couple, a passing policeman then knocks at Keaton's door after hearing his wife scream.

Keaton saves himself from arrest by playing music on a gramophone and pretending to dance with his unconscious wife, acting as if all were normal.

The taxi is stopped by a traffic warden (riding a classic Harley-Davidson motorcycle frame mounted on skis driven by a pusher propeller - an actual mode of transport, not a joke for the film), but they get away: Keaton is up to his old tricks—he flips the propeller around to reverse the thrust, so after they drive off in the middle of the traffic stop, the officer goes backward into a lake when he restarts his engine to chase them.

Forced to flee back to the igloo, where his companion is using a carpet sweeper on the ice floor, Keaton sees his pretty neighbor again in her new hut.

Apparently fortified by drinking a bottle of cola, grimacing as if it were strong liquor, he decides he will go and make another attempt to win or coerce the other woman.

The husband appears to punch the friend so hard he flies through the air and lands headfirst in the ice fishing hole from earlier in the film.

Arbuckle later wrote a premise for a film parodying Hart as a thief, bully and wife beater which Keaton purchased from him.

[5] The comedy also briefly parodies Erich von Stroheim's womanizing character from the film Foolish Wives.