[1][2] As described in a review in a film magazine,[3] deserted by her shiftless husband and three sons, Ma Tumble (Mackintosh) works the little farm and raises her infant daughter Falfi.

Fifteen years later Falfi (Daw) meets a stranger who proves to be the youngest son Jim (Nigh).

The arrival of the sheriff finds Jim crazed with fear as he had aided his father and brothers in a bank robbery.

A soldier appears and tells the family that Jim died in France a hero in the war.

Ma discovers him and the deception, and Jim admits he always was a coward and says he hid in France so as to be captured.