Upon completing his duty in Rome, Tom learns that his company is being sent to the Pacific. Army assigned to Italy, is driven by the brutal cold of winter to murder a young German soldier for his overcoat. A man wearing a plush overcoat then triggers Tom's war memories: Tom, a captain in the U.S. On the commuter train to work the next morning, Tom questions his friend, Bill Hawthorne, about a public relations job at the UBC television network. Betsy accuses her husband of "losing his guts" since his return ten years earlier from military service during World War II. When Tom learns that his grandmother's funds have been depleted and consequently, his entire inheritance consists only of her white-elephant house, Tom's ambitious wife Betsy presses him to seek a higher paying job. Finding it difficult to support his family on his $7,000 yearly salary, Tom Rath hopes that his late grandmother's estate will yield a financial bonanza.
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