A Two-Bit Fortune

A young mechanic named Mike Wilson discovers that unexpected wealth can destroy everything he holds dear. Set in a small American town, Mike's relationship with his girlfriend and his hopes for the future fall apart when a strange drifter dies and leaves him a large inheritance.

Mike Wilson, a skilled mechanic, takes an injured bum he picks up by the side of a highway to the hospital and lends him a quarter. Mike just laughs when the man says he is Stanford Spruce, a mysterious reclusive billionaire. However, when Mr. Spruce dies, Mike learns that he has inherited the man’s fortune, his involuntary seclusion and his lawyer, Amos Keane, who threatens to kill Mike unless he does what he is told.

This poignant story shows the tragic consequences of a sudden fortune in the life of Mike Wilson, a young mechanic. The action takes place in a small American town, where the mechanic's girlfriend and his dreams of a better life are disturbed by the arrival of a mysterious vagrant who dies and leaves him a fortune.