Charlie plays a woman, jealous over her husband's interest in another woman. She gets in the way of a cameraman, knocks over a director and a policeman, and gets thrown into a crowd of spectators at a military parade. She attacks her husband and his new flame. The husband throws her off the pier into the harbor.

卓别林为“第一国家影片公司"拍摄的首部电影，片长三卷。卓别林在本片中把流浪汉的生活与狗的生活有趣地构成对比，他与它都同样要挣扎求存，并且忍受社会各阶层将他们踢来踢去。卓别林从本片开始思考到喜剧的结构问题，每一个段落均互相关连而构成一个整体。由于结构完整，使这部在内容上仍然是表现流浪流夏尔洛在贫民窑和酒店被警察追得东奔西跑的喜剧显得笑中有泪。

Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.

Charlie goes to the movie and falls in love with a girl on the screen. He goes to Keystone Studios to find her. He disrupts the shooting of a film, and a fire breaks out. Charlie is blamed, gets squirted with a firehose, and is shoved by the female star.

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After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating. Mr. Stout makes advances toward the unwilling Edna (whose father and Mrs. Stout had earlier carried on in the restaurant). After a roller skate ballet, Charlie (now as Sir Cecil Seltzer) is invited to a party at Edna's. All the"couples", including a new partner for Mr. Stout. show up.

　　1914年夏天，伦敦一所单身公寓。芭蕾舞女演员塞瑞拉·安布罗斯（克莱尔·布鲁姆 Claire Bloom饰）在自己的房间里，打开煤气企图自杀。万幸的是，喝得醉醺醺，刚回家的邻居卡尔费罗（查理·卓别林 Charles Chaplin饰）正好救了她。等赛瑞拉苏醒以后，卡尔费罗才得知她是因为患了风湿不能再跳舞，才产生轻生的念头。而卡尔费罗曾经是一名伟大的喜剧演员。他悉心的照料着赛瑞拉，并用自己的滑稽喜剧打消了她自杀的想法。六个月后，赛瑞拉重新成功的站了起来，并在一出芭蕾剧中担当重要角色。可赛瑞拉却与一名作曲