Corra Harris

William Thompson, un predicador ambulante, y su esposa Mary Elizabeth se instalan en un pueblecito de Georgia. Todo va bien hasta que se detecta una epidemia que amenaza a toda la población.

While visiting Atlanta, pampered Northern heiress Olive Thurston meets and marries Southerner John Ames, a member of an impoverished but old aristocratic family. John attempts to force his wife to conform to Southern ideals of womanhood, resulting in many conflicts between the newlyweds, but after a brief separation, Olive and John are reunited, resolving to look for each other's virtues and forgive the faults.