Mr and Mrs Doodad read of a face-making competition and decide to enter. Daisy Doodad is furious when her husband returns having won first prize while she was forced to stay at home with a toothache. When another competition is announced she decides to try her luck and rehearses in a railway carriage, to the consternation of the other occupants. She continues her experiments in the street and is finally arrested for disturbing the peace.

At the police station, Daisy creates further havoc, until her husband bails her out. She accuses him of having her arrested in a fit of jealousy. She departs in a huff for bed and has a nightmare in which a series of her faces close in upon her. The film concludes with Daisy making various faces at the camera in close-up.