[citation needed] The film was based on the eponymous one-act play by the poet, playwright, and suffragist Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942).

The King of her country (unnamed in the original; Germany in the later version) decrees that women must bear more children to fight in future wars.

[7] It opened in January at B.F. Keith's Palace Theatre in New York City, with Alla Nazimova in the lead role, and toured the country for several months.

For example, while it had been showing in Maryland, once the United States entered the war the film was banned as its pacifist message might affect military recruitment.

Later that year the producer, Lewis Selznick, had the film edited to give it an anti-German slant, and re-released it to American theaters.