Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.

Bessie Mulcahy wants to spend her husband's gift of $1,000,000. to get a rich society husband for their eligible daughter.

When Emily Short receives the million dollar cheque she flies over to Paris. Oh the flight she meets Mark Ryan. Falling head over heels for Mark she doesn't realize that he is smuggling diamonds.