Madame Lamphier, a ballet dancer, tires of domestic life after the birth of her daughter, Dora, and returns to the stage. Her husband, Andrew, however, disappears with her daughter. Years later, Madame Lamphier is injured by a fall, and when a younger girl threatens to take her place, Lamphier in a jealous rage shoots the manager, Pierre, and frames the girl for murder. When she discovers that the girl is her own long-lost daughter, she herself dies.