Content with life as she knows it the woman lives happily with her husband and their little son in a humble cottage. Then, on the invitation of a school friend she goes to the city and soon learns that there is another life, much more fascinating, apparently, than that to which she is accustomed. An artist is her constant cavalier, and by degrees the gay life takes hold on her. She writes her husband that she will not return. He is crushed by the blow, but must give evasive answers to the boy's impatient cry: "Why doesn't mamma come home?" A young artist sees the little fellow and paints his picture. It is exhibited, and the mother, seeing it, is drawn irresistibly back to her child. When she returns to the cottage her husband roughly orders her away, but his heart is touched by her penitence and by the child's joy. and finally he forgives her, and they are happy once more.
—Moving Picture World synopsis