One morning, a tenant's landlord, Mr. Evans, arrives at his door in Hoboken and tells him that he has to move out by the end of the month. Mr. Evans says he will send him his security deposit soon. Surprised but not terribly disappointed, the man begins to look for a new place to live. After he visits a few unsuitable places he had found in the newspaper, he meets Benson, the superintendent of a building in Williamsburg. Benson shows him the apartment and says he'll talk to the landlord, Lubin, about renting it. In the meantime, the man starts to look for a job but doesn't find anything too inspiring. In order to buy food, he takes a driving gig for a day. The man is still waiting on his security deposit back, but Mr. Evans says it's in the mail. Benson agrees to rent him the apartment and accepts the man's cashier's check happily. The next time he goes to see Benson though, Benson tells him the landlord already rented out the apartment and that the couple who he rented it to refuse to back out unless someone pays them $100. With less then forty dollars to his name, the man refuses, but eventually agrees to because he needs the apartment. Strangely enough, when he goes to see Lubin, Lubin knows nothing of the $100. Mr. Evans eventually admits that he won't give the security deposit back unless all the junk in the apartment has been dealt with, even though it has been in there long before the man moved in. The man begrudgingly moves most of the junk while he calls Mr. Evans non-stop to pester him about the deposit. Still on a job search, the man applies for a security position. He goes to take a polygraph test for the job and lies about his current housing situation but seems to pass, as he gets the job. The man moves into the new place in Williamsburg and starts his new job. Mr. Evans gives him half the security deposit back and the man is pleased. He's especially pleased because he hadn't paid the electric bill in a year and had defaulted on most of his utility bills. He never returns to Hoboken.