In the little French village the young Fisherman and Yvonne play together as children, and grow to young manhood and young womanhood as almost inseparable companions. La GIou, a Frenchwoman, living in Paris, covets an expensive necklace. Her husband finds himself unable to purchase this. In petulant passion she says: "I shall leave you and take up my home by the sea. When you secure the diamond necklace bring it to me and we will again live together." La Glou arrives in the fishing village. One day the young Fisherman meets La Glou, the beautiful woman of the world. She exerts her charms to capture the heart of the young man and she is successful. As the days pass the young Fisherman becomes more and more neglectful of his childhood friend. In Paris, La Glou's husband purchases the diamond necklace which his wife longed for. He hastens to the village where he gives the necklace to his wife. Together they sit near the edge of a cliff overlooking the sea. The young Fisherman has missed his inamorata and searching for her, encounters La G1ou and her husband. Passionately he springs between the two and demands to know who and what is the strange man. La Glou has tired of the young Fisherman. The young Fisherman in desperation flings himself over the cliff and into the sea. There the young Fisherman's mother ends her search for him. She finds her son lying unconscious and carries him to their little home. La Glou and her husband return to Paris. Months later the thoughts of La Glou return again to the youthful Fisherman. She recalls the day in the picturesque fisher-village when she won his youthful loyalty. She resolves to see him once more. Arriving in the village the goes to the young Fisherman's home. There she is met by the old mother, who says: "I will take you to my son." Together they enter a boat, go far out to sea, and the aged mother batters a hole in the bottom of the boat, and as it is slowly sinking beneath the waves, she exclaims: "You took him from me once, but you shall never have him again."