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A loving young couple in this drama find that their hopes and wishes for life are not being fulfilled. The young man cannot find work which suits him, and he turns to robbery to pay his debts. The girl, a nurse, is too fastidious for her job and is unable to continue when asked to take a dead baby's body to the morgue. In a parallel story, a homeless man living in a junkyard tries to get rid of a dog which has attached itself to him, and he winds up killing both himself and the dog.