 Well educated, Kansas born and raised, Brantley Foster sets out to make his fortune in New York. Unfortunately, when he arrives, the job he is promised fails to materialise, so he reluctantly looks up a distant relative, Howard Prescot, who runs a multimillion dollar corporation. Starting at the bottom, doesn t appeal to Brantley so he pretends to be an executive, whilst keeping this a secret from "uncle" Howard and Brantley s dream girl Christy.