The usurer Sintram lives and breathes for money and, for this very reason; he disinherits his charitable son Floridan. Embittered, Sintram buries his fortune in the forest and hides a will in a beech tree, with his estate left to anyone who finds it. This act is the only hard physical work the old usurer has done in his life and, ironically, the exhaustion kills him. Meanwhile, Floridan has been employed at a sawmill when he receives the news of his father’s death and his own disinheritance. However, as fate would have it, a certain beech tree finds its way to Floridan’s sawmill. (Stumfilm.dk)

El usurero Sintram vive y respira por el dinero y, por esta misma razón, deshereda a su caritativo hijo Floridan. Amargado, Sintram entierra su fortuna en el bosque y esconde un testamento en un haya, dejando su patrimonio a quien lo encuentre. Este acto es el único trabajo físico duro que el viejo usurero ha realizado en su vida e, irónicamente, el agotamiento le mata. Mientras tanto, Floridan ha sido empleado en un aserradero cuando recibe la noticia de la muerte de su padre y de ha sido desheredado.