Guy Gordon and Velma Irving have become man and wife without the performance of a ceremony by church or state. They are infatuated with each other and Guy's father tries to separate them. His efforts are unavailing and Guy leaves home to occupy apartments with his inamorata. A year later Guy's father visits the apartment and finds conditions of dissipation and immorality which cause him to persuade Guy that he should endeavor to do better. Velma overhears the conversation and persuades Guy to go with her into the wilderness where they can fight the curse of liquor which controls them both. Guy falls in love with a beautiful girl who is modest, beautiful and sincere. He wants to leave Velma. but she clings to him. He leaves the cabin and she follows. Velma falls over a cliff and Guy endeavors to rescue her with a rope. But her weight pulls him over the cliff also and thus they die as they have lived, in immorality together.
—Moving Picture World synopsis