Plot

The orthodox mother's indomitable will dwarfed the child's individuality, defeating the very purpose it would attain. The girl ran away with an actor and the fearful prayer, "If I ever speak to that man again, may God strike my mother blind," was fulfilled, but in the end the woman was saved from herself.—Moving Picture World synopsis

"May God strike my mother blind if I ever speak to that man again." This relentless prayer the girl repeated when the infuriated woman bade her choose between home and lover. All her life the girl had been dominated, her only consolation the rigid teachings of the church. Then love had come in the guise of a handsome actor traveling with a medicine show. She obeyed her mother then, but finally love triumphed, and she ran away with her sweetheart. Her mother, refusing fanatically to hear the letter which the girl sent back to the preacher, dropped a kerosene lamp and was blinded by the explosion. Later she felt the clutch of poverty. By accident she came near falling into an open well. The freak of chance suggested a way out of her misery of body and soul. Just as she was about to execute her grim purpose, the runaways reached her side. Perhaps because she had been so close to death, she suddenly saw, with inward eyes, life in its true colors. Love had triumphed.—Moving Picture World synopsis