Frederica
Un escritor achaca su crisis de creatividad al ambiente en el que se mueve, la alta sociedad. Por esta razón decide transladarse junto con su esposa a su pueblo natal en Nueva Inglaterra. Su mujer decide regresar, poco después, a Nueva York, y él se enamora de una granjera, a la que convierte en heroína de su novela. Sin embargo, sus padres le obligan a contraer matrimonio, contra su voluntad, con otro hombre
Laurel Ammidon
Gerrit Ammidon, despairing of any chance to marry his love, Nettie Vollar, because of a bitter feud between his father and her grandfather, sails to China to "get away from it all". While in Shanghai he rescues a beautiful young woman being attacked by a gang of street toughs. She turns out to be Taou Yuen, a Manchu princess. Gerrit discovers that, unless she finds a husband, she will be put to death, and he agrees to marry her. They return to Java Head, the Ammidon family home in Salem, Massachusetts, but Gerrit's "homecoming" has some unexpected consequences.
Julie Duncan
Young high school teacher Rosalie Allen rejects the love of Dr. Paul Duncan to "save" Lionel Brooks, a man down on his luck.
Alice Paige lives the Bohemian life in New York's Greenwich Village until she receives a letter informing her that she soon will inherit a fine country estate, provided that she live on the property with her maiden aunt. Alice reluctantly leaves New York for the provincial Southern town of Mayport, where she shocks the local inhabitants with her unconventional ways.
Ilda (as a Child)
The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
Marie - as a child
Una joven, hija de un capitán de barco, se enamora de un hombre de familia rica que no la aprueba.
