The plot involves the impact of World War I upon a farm girl (Gaynor) and a returning soldier (Farrell).

Both versions were thought lost until the silent film was rediscovered in the archives of the Dutch Filmmuseum in the late 1980s and subsequently restored.

Timothy Osborn (Farrell) and Martin Wrenn (Williams) work as linemen for a utility in a rural area.

Both flirt with Mary Tucker (Gaynor) who is the daughter of a widowed dairy farmer, As the film begins it is 1917, and America becomes involved in World War I.

In the end, Osborn regains some use of his legs, walks through snow to confront Wrenn just before he is about to wed Mary.