In the opening scene a policeman, with a summons to serve, knocks at the door of a cottage, the woman who answers the door being nearly frightened to death when she hears his business. The scene changes to the interior of the cottage where a man is seated at a table. The constable enters and serves the summons and, having accepted the offer of a glass of beer (contrary to a policeman's usual principles), the glass disappears from his hand, the man and woman, furniture and everything he touches instantly disappearing until the poor man is at his wits' end. Leaving the room in a state of amazement, he does not notice a pail of whitewash the artful couple have placed in his way, and which he falls into, being turned into a perfectly white figure. He, however, has his revenge when he catches them both and ducks them in the whitewash.
—Moving Picture World synopsis