Papa Strauss, a widower, is being shifted around from one married-son`s home to the other, and is unwelcome at all because his daughter-in-laws` object to his smelly pipe smoking. Finally the family tucks him `out of sight and out of mind` into a nursing home, with very little `honor thy father` thought given to it. However, unmarried daughter, Lena, who loves her father dearly, has a bright fiancée, who makes a lot of money off of a patent, and they make a home for him.