At the story's beginning a family receives an inheritance, not a large one, but great enough for them to leave their crowded city flat and move to the country, where they foresee the opportunity to fulfill their long-cherished dreams. The father wants to paint "important" pictures, and the mother and daughter want to expand their ideals of home hitherto bound by the close confines of her meager means. But instead of brightening with their good fortune, their sky becomes cloudy, and dissatisfaction leads to disillusion and a broken home. The daughter is made the innocent victim of 20th-century ethics; suffering one disillusion after another, she decides to take a step that nearly results in tragedy.
—Moving Picture World synopsis