British comedy starring Bernard Braden as Roger Fox, a penniless artist unable to provide any luxuries for his wife Jean (Barbara Kelly). Jean's Uncle Amos (Laurence Naismith) gives them a proposition: he agrees to finance them if Roger produces more commercial pieces of work. The couple's net worth is calculated but the funds aren't enough and in order to pay for some necessary home repairs, Jean pawns her husband. Subsequently it materialises that Jean can't make the repayments on the loan and so Roger remains on the shelf in the pawnshop until a new family decides to pick him up...