The film focuses on Hugh Logan, a single father who leaves his little girl, May, at home when he goes on a business trip.

It states: "Hugh Logan is a widower who lives with his only child, a little girl, in a small cottage in the country.

The kindly Neal secures him employment, and as time passes Logan falls deeply in love with Maud.

As no word is received from him, and she has no other relatives, Bridget, the servant, takes her to the orphan asylum, where she is compelled to make her home with other little unfortunates.

He was an experienced newspaperman employed by The New York Evening World while writing scripts for the Thanhouser productions.

Blair Smith was the first cameraman of the Thanhouser company, but he was soon joined by Carl Louis Gregory who had years of experience as a still and motion picture photographer.

[1] Curiously, The Moving Picture World makes a reference to aphasia instead of amnesia in advertising the film, "The Friday release (August 5) is a gripping heart-drama, by name The Restoration.

It is a curious, a novel thing; in a sense a study in aphasia - one of those weird plots you expect a Thanhouser picture to unfold.

"[6] The film likely had a wide national release as evidenced by numerous advertisements, including theaters in Maryland,[7] Indiana,[8] and Kansas.

It seems queer that the child should be able to escape from the orphan asylum in such an easy manner and that no search be made by the institution.

"[1] The Moving Picture World spared little coverage of the actual film in its review, noting that the emotional story might be a plausible.