Judd Cole operates a retail store. Greedy landlord Walter Chandler insists on tripling the rent and forces his son into a VP position at Judd's business. Demands rejected, the landlord cuts water and power to force Judd to vacate. The son and father take over the store but fail. Judd constructs a new complex. The landlord schemes against Judd, destroying his own options and ending up miserable.