Sins of the Parents is a 1914 silent film written and directed by Ivan Abramson, and starring Sara Adler, a prominent Yiddish theatre actress in her first of two movie appearances.
As was typical of Abramson's potboilers, Sins of the Parents involves complicated and often contrived plot twists arising out of family relations of the primary characters.
They are engaged to be married, but Angelo claims he must leave for a concert tour—but in truth he returns to his wife and child in Italy, crushing Laura.
Laura gives birth an illegitimate child, Ruth, but is forced to abandon her and moves to New York, where she falls under the care of Reverend Henry Bradley.
Tony befriends Ruth (of course not knowing she is his half-sister) under false pretenses, and plans to sell her into white slavery in New Orleans.