Aurelie, an orphan, escapes from a New Orleans convent and is adopted by Mississippi riverboat captain Lindstrom. So that she can have a more settled life, he sends her to live with his brother, John Lindstrom, a squatter in a small river valley town. There she develops into a beautiful woman and wins a newspaper's beauty contest, attracting an offer from a theatrical producer, which she accepts. She rapidly achieves success, but when she returns to town, she is spurned.

• Andrew J. Callaghan Productions Inc.
• Bessie Love
• Truman Van Dyke
• Sydney Deane
• Frances Raymond
• Curt Rehfeld
• C. Norman Hammond
• Lloyd Bacon
• Jack Donovan