On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.

Geoffrey Hibbert
Peter Henderson

Harry Welchman
Lincolns Inn

Greta Gynt
Sylvia Meadows

Joyce Howard
Mary

Edward Rigby
'Tich'

Bransby Williams
Ben

George Carney
Charlie

Eliot Makeham
Inky
Mark Hambourg
'Chopin'
Paul Martin
Chris

Raymond Lovell
Cartwright

John Longden
Stuart Gordon

Wally Patch
'Nobby'
Edgar Driver
'Oily'

Bernard Miles
Cricket Steward