Billy escapes from an asylum, and through a flirtation with a manicurist, is led to a barber shop, where he is induced to take the barber's place, who has an engagement she is anxious to keep. He takes the manicurist to the Barber's ball, where the asylum keepers trace him. He evades them and runs back to the asylum. Arriving there he heaves a sigh of contentment and locks the asylum guards out for the night.