The film stars Alma Rubens, Percy Marmont, Jean Hersholt, ZaSu Pitts, Hughie Mack, and Cesare Gravina.

[1][2][3][4] As described in a film magazine,[5] Donovan Steele (Marmont), returned to Quebec to get married, finds his fiancée in the arms of another.

Deceived by his fiance, He disappears into the heart of the Canadian wilderness to wander and soon becomes known as "the man who denies god".

The young woman is a fugitive from justice, being accused by her uncle, Xavier Caron (Turner), of murdering her brother.

Jean Cluny (Hersholt), the detective, gets wind of where she is, and sends word to her that, if she will consent to be his wife, he will help to clear her of the murder charge.

He and Nerée go from the chapel into the arms of two detectives who have been waiting for Neree to tell her that Xavier has confessed to the murder.