 A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that s just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week s pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he s sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?