Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?

A penniless Irishman becomes the business partner of an English aristocrat with a penchant for high-stakes gambling.

A pilot saves a dancer from a Paris nightclub owner and they stow away to Cornwall.

A girl refuses the attentions of a young playboy with whom her sister is in love.

An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.

A jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.