The film is based on the 1906 play Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker, and stars Marguerite Clark in the title role.

Clark also starred in the 1913 Winthrop Ames produced Broadway stage production on which the film is based.

[2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Prunella (Clark), who lives in a garden with her three aunts Prim (Berwin), Prude (Harris) and Privacy (Cecil), is carefully guarded from the outside world until the day a troupe of travelling players comes to town.

From the stills available the film looks fascinating, and one cannot agree more with Wagenknecht than there is "no motion picture at present unavailable to students of cinema which would be more important to recover.

"[4]Screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen, also commenting on the still photographs from this lost film, reports that "Marguerite Clark's screen image was a compound of whimsicality and frail beauty.