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