 Laurita Finton is accused by her husband of being in love with an artist. There is a trial, but the artist, who has been rejected by the girl, kills himself. Laurita s world is destroyed so she decides to leave, changing her identity and starting a new life. She falls in love with a rich young man, John Whittaker, but his family doesn t like Laurita, a girl with an "easy virtue". John s mother finds out about the shadows in Laurita s past and tells everything to her son.