It tells the story of one night in which a middle-aged man is lured away from his happy home into the thrills and dangers of the city streets.

He is soon hooked into playing cards with a prostitute and her company, and he ends up tied in a murder case when he is caught near the scene of a death of the bumpkin, narrowly escaping staying in jail.

The film opens with a middle-aged man lying on his couch with a look of discontent as his wife finishes cooking their dinner on a rather uneventful night.

As she rushes back and forth setting the table, he sluggishly rises and walks across the room to the window and gazes out onto the busy streets.

His wife eventually walks over and gazes too, but quickly sits at the table and begins to eat dinner.

The man takes one look at the food and then casually leaves the apartment and begins to wander the streets in search of something exciting.

The little boy begins to cry and the blind man sits him up on his lap and comforts him, stroking his hair and talking to him.

The middle-aged man, the harlot, and the pimp run all around town getting into all sorts of scenarios: scuffling over a seat on a park bench, falsely claiming to have been robbed, going to a dance, and gambling in a card game.

The middle-aged man looks at his wedding ring, and inside of it he sees an image of his wife walking backwards away from him.

Around the same time, the blind man and the little boy have left the house and are standing outside a shop along the busy street.

The little boy is stranded on a traffic island in the chaotic, bustling street, surrounded by horses, bicycles, pedestrians, and cars whizzing by.