Martin Ringwald is a homeless man living in 1960's New York City. He passes the time by sitting in the public library while writing his novels, but so far the literary agents won't give him the time of day. But later Martin discovers someone is plagiarizing his books. This results in Martin's life getting turned around. But after that he is gets taken advantage of by even more people one after the other. All any of them are after is his royalties.