Sadie Martin owns a riverboat that is frequently used by miners traveling to their claims. During their trip, the miners drink and gamble. Sadie's daughter, Helen, is unaware of her mother's work because her mother sends her to boarding school in order to live a lifestyle more attributed to the upper-class. Unfortunately for Sadie, she is facing difficulty maintaining the costly riverboat. She is soon forced to sell the boat in order to make ends meet.

A husband fakes a note from his sick uncle, who then turns up.

Set free by the Teen Angels from his prehistoric block of glacier ice, comes the world's first superhero, Captain Caveman!