The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

Based on the short story from George Eliot's 1857 work Scenes of a Clerical life. A chaplain to an aristocratic British family falls in love with their ward, a young Italian woman, who he marries. Tragedy strikes when she dies only a few months later leaving him in a state of grief.

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