George Bailey is a small town man whose life seems so desperate that he pulls a suicide note. He always wanted to Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart led him to stay. He sacrificed his education for hisbrothers, family savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the greed of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. When he was getting ready to jump off the bridge, screaming his guardian angel, I gave him to zhiznzhiteli Bedford Falls if he had never lived.