The story features the Little Tramp, Chaplin's famous character, who is trying to survive in the modern industrialized world. The film shows the Little Tramp working in a factory on an assembly line that never seems to stop. A feeding machine gives him food while he continues tightening the bolts on a moving belt. The Little Tramp can't stand the monotony-doing the same thing over and over-and suffers a mental breakdown. He's taken to the hospital,and soon recovers. But he can,t avoid getting into trouble again.