Wayne Baxter and his wife Ethel were running a small restaurant in Toronto when the Klondike gold rush started, and to them it looked like a good opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fortune, by opening a restaurant in the Yukon. They sold their possessions for enough to pay their passage and have a small residue of cash. But, when they arrived in Dawson later, they found that other people with more cash than themselves, had had the same idea! They also found that their small savings were far from sufficient to open even a small cafe...