A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
Anna (Lillian Gish) é uma menina do campo pobre e ingênua, que é iludida e acaba por entrar em um falso casamento com Lennox (Lowell Sherman), um homem rico e mulherengo. Ela fica grávida e ele a abandona, mas o bebê morre. Depois, ela arranja emprego e acolhimento em uma fazenda. O filho do dono se apaixona por ela, mas as lembranças do seu último relacionamento farão com que um novo envolvimento amoroso seja difícil.
Lelia Crofton, a Louisiana belle of the 1860s, loves Burleigh Mavor. By chance, she sees one of her father's black stablemen making love to a neighbor's maid, whom she supposed was white. The incident shocks Lelia and leaves a great impression upon her. When she rejects suitor Steve Daubeney, he threatens to expose a damaging secret about her mother, whom she has never met. Remembering the incident with the neighbor's maid, Lelia worries that her mother might be black, and when Daubeney learns of her fears, he leads her to believe that they are well-founded.
