In a nostalgic look at America at the turn of the 20th century, men with handlebar mustaches play old-fashioned music on their found objects.

An extremely lazy man working on a plantation must choose between good and bad when it comes to alcohol. He has a nightmare where he goes to heaven on a mule but, while up there, he is kicked down to the underworld with Hades after drinking alcohol from the "forbidden tree" (an allusion to the Hebrew myth of Adam and Eve).