A wandering man walks down a dusty road in Iowa. He comes across a town with a fair going on and he finds company in the throngs of locals having fun. He decides that he might make a little money that day and so he goes to a crowded hamburger stand and they hire him for the day to help them cook. The two owners are Frank and Bill, who have been working the fair circuit for a while. Frank is a somewhat happy man, but Bill seems listless and empty. They work all day long in the heat, and during a reprieve from their work, Bill tells the man that he has an adopted daughter back home who left him, but came back to his home and is now getting married. Bill says that she has a room for him in her house and when he’s done working for the summer he’s going to move in with her and help feed her chickens. Bill also says that he has struggled with alcoholism his entire life and the man sees that he is drinking that night.  The man goes to sleep on the ground with some blankets, but is awoken by Frank who says Bill is having a fit and the man needs to find the doctor. The man runs through the town and finds the doctor’s house and brings him back to Frank and Bill. They find Bill in a crazy fit seemingly wrestling with an invisible figure. He collapses and the doctor diagnoses him with some sort of delirium and says that Bill probably won’t make it. The man says he feels bad for his daughter back home, but Frank says that Bill lied and that his daughter left a while ago and never came back.