Two missionaries are crossing a bridge when they see a dirty, drunk young man. One of the missionaries stops to try to convince the young man to move so that he doesn't fall into the water. The young man reveals that he came to the bridge to kill himself, but the missionary convinces him to go home and see his mother instead. The missionary pays for the man's train ticket with the money his own mother had just sent him, and much later, he meets that same man who is now living with his mother and has turned his life around.