Joe (Tearle) and Bessie (Ayres), living in sin and just scraping by. Bessie thinks Joe has stolen their meagre savings, so she leaves him and becomes a manicurist eventually marrying a wealthy man who turns out to be stingy and cruel. Joe saves heiress Marion (Mills) from drowning, makes good as a civil engineer and eventually marries her. Joe and Bessie meet again by chance and Joe, in helping her to keep her secret, incurs Marion's jealousy. Bessie, extorted by a former acquaintance in desperation, decides to tell everything to her husband. However, to aid Joe she accuses Wallace (Miljan), with whom Marion is preparing to go away. Finally, Joe and Marion are reconciled, but Bessie learns that the world never forgives a woman who sins even when she has reformed.

Cast

Conway Tearle

Joe Strickland

Agnes Ayres

Bessie Hayes

Alyce Mills

Marion Winslow

Otto Matieson

Frank Bowman

Robert Ober

Harvey Larkin

John Miljan

Wallace

Mary Beth Milford

Eve Southern

Mrs. Strickland

Marjery O'Neill