During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.

An author's nephew loves his mother's companion, who turns out to the the author's bastard.

Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie Gray. Johnston is swept off her feet by the raffishly charming Moore, and before long they are wed.

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)

An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.