A painter in distress, through want of food, accepts $50 from two quack dealers in bodies. He leaps from a high bridge into a river to commit suicide but, to the surprise of the freakish merchants, his body rebounds from the surface of the water back onto the bridge and he rushes to satisfy his hunger. The dealers pursue him and command him to commit suicide by 6:00 so that his body will be turned over to them. Meanwhile, the artist receives a telegram announcing the death of his uncle and the inheritance of several thousand dollars. To comply with his negotiations with the quack dealers, he gives them his uncle's body.