Haidee Wright

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

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

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

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

Bank clerk George Farrelly is warned by his old teacher, Martha, through his childhood sweetheart Charity, about a diamond necklace he took from a safe-deposit box, leading him to confess and return it, testing his integrity and romance amidst temptation, with the story unfolding as a confession about a potential theft.