In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, the sultry Carmen seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard, turning him into a traitor and murderer.
Disgusted by the unattractive, slovenly appearance of his wife, Charles Murdock actively seeks her replacement.
A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.
A spoiled stockbroker's wife embezzles money from the charity she chairs, and desperately turns to an ivory trader to replace it.
A cashier succumbs to temptation and steals $1000 from his employer, forcing him to run away and assume a dead man's identity.
A district attorney sends Lydia Thorne, a wealthy thrill-seeker, to jail for manslaughter. While she reforms, he slips into addiction and despair.
A married couple discover their strained relationship is the result of unhappiness in their past lives.
The Volga boatmen engage in a hostile confrontation with Prince Dimitri and Princess Vera, just as the Revolution breaks out in Tsarist Russia.
When Jenny Lawrence travels to Gold Rush-era California to live with her uncle, he's embroiled in battle with Native Californians.