Ernie Marsh, an African-American wildcatter searches the pockets of a coat that he had just been given by a wealthy man that had ended up sharing the alley with him after a hard night of drinking, an alley that Ernie called home. Ernie, sick with lung cancer, had awoken in a stupor and mistakenly pissed on the man, who threw the piss-reeking coat at him. Ernie discovers a paper in the coat; it reveals that he is partner to a major oil discovery. Ernie...