Will is a young musician of the modern school, rich in his own right, who has a consuming ambition to make a name for himself as a pianist. For years, however, he has had only one other interest, Leah. She has been his friend, sweetheart and adviser and has continued to love him passionately, always with the hope that someday he would marry her. Then the time comes when Will meets a society girl. She is flattered by his good looks and ability on the piano and Will, in turn, believes that marrying her will further his career. He decides on this step and informs Leah that they must part. Leah, in a moment of passion one night, and knowing that it is only his ambition that keeps Will from her, enters his apartment, chloroforms him while he sleeps and pours poison into his ears. Then she escapes, taking a silver tea set to make robbery appear as the motive. Will, with his hearing gone and unable to play, is thrown aside by the society girl. His butler, a faithful fellow, swears to bring the person, guilty of poisoning his master to justice. Time passes; Leah marries Will, though the latter does not know her guilt. They are happy and it is through her that the musician is led to take up composing. Also, she teaches him the language of the lips. It is the butler who secures the evidence against Leah. While he decides to remain quiet, now that his master is happy. Will finds out. Leah is driven from the house. Several years pass by. Will has become famous by his compositions mainly through the efforts of a concert pianist. Madam Genez. Through the music publisher a great recital is arranged; Will is to meet the pianist whom nobody seems to know much about. At the recital, Will comes face to face with his wife. Though he had driven her out, she had toiled to became a great player simply to play his pieces and make him famous as a slight atonement for her crime. Reconciliation comes in a scene that is rife with pathos.
—Moving Picture World synopsis