Charlie is awakened from his outdoor sleeping quarters by the tantalizing odor of steaming viands offered for sale by a passing hot-dog vendor. This leads to a number of spirited adventures with the police, who resent Charlie's ambition to eat without paying the usual fee. Later, Charlie's faithful dog, famishing for something to test his teeth upon, digs up a pocketbook "loaded" with money that crooks buried in the ground. And when Charlie tries to spend the money in a nearby café he meets the big moment of his career, for it brings him into contact with a beautiful cabaret singer who is herself starved for love and kindness.
—Moving Picture World synopsis