Sidney A. Franklin served as the director of the movie and Frances Marion wrote the scenario based on a play, The Divorcee, by Edgar Selwyn.

[1][2][3] As described in a film magazine,[4] Phyllis Tomley (Talmadge), a romance-stricken young woman, has grown tired of her prosaic, practical husband Hector (Ford) and mourns the loss of the popular author Donald Wales (Harlan), who supposedly died in South America.

Wales accuses Hector of taking advantage of his absence, and Phyllis rushes to get a divorce in Nevada.

From a Native American guide, Hector learns how to subdue an unruly wife, and he tries it on Phyllis with complete success.

She apparently likes the rough treatment, and is happier still when the Nevada judge denies her requested divorce.