Louis Winthorpe je bogat poslovnež. Dela kot borzni posrednik, živi v krasni hiši, poleg tega pa ima še lepo in bogato zaročenko. Na drugi strani pa Billy Ray Valentine nima te sreče. Živi na cesti in se preživlja s prosjačenjem. Nobeden od njiju ne sluti, da se jima bo življenje v kratkem obrnilo na glavo. Louisova nadrejena, brata Duke, skleneta stavo. Randolph stavi, da lahko Billyja spremeni v uspešnega poslovneža, Louisa pa v popolno zgubo. Poskrbita, da Louisa po krivem obtožijo kraje in posedovanja mamil.
Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.
PLANET 
TV3 
TV1000