Hatcher Ide is a young man whom you will learn to know at you know few of your flesh and bloos acquanitances. His problem is how to make a living in this day and age, to orient himself in the problems of love and the general complexities of existence. His father's business is on the rocks, his father's friends keep up a bold front on scanty incomes. The world is different that when he was a child and not as cordial to young men fresh from school.