Elvira and Ernest are lovers, and are seen in happy courtship. Ernest's pleading for Elvira's hand is refused by her father, and the young couple elope in a motor. Coming around a curve at tremendous speed the car is hurled against a tree and the occupants catapulted into the road. Ernest is instantly killed. Elvira is nursed by country folk, but according to the eyes of her country her elopement has brought disgrace upon her, and she destroys herself. The scene ends with the unhappy parents viewing the earthly remains of their loved child, whose death they unwittingly caused by their ambitions for a wealthy son-in-law.
—Moving Picture World synopsis