 Meyer Fine is a casino manager who is so afraid of death that he can t even attend funerals. One evening he expresses concern at the amount of money being lost by a young gambler, who is later found to have committed suicide. When one of Fine s henchmen is killed by fellow mobsters, he becomes convinced that he s next. Terrified at what the future may hold, he begs his butler to help him in the only way he knows how.