Sylvia and Janet lose their mother and are left destitute orphans. Jenny Smart (a leading moving picture actress) takes an interest in the girls and brings them to a studio. Sylvia is employed as a moving picture actress and is cast as the lead in a retelling of "Cinderella". A rare glimpse of filmmaking in Turin’s Ambrosio studio.

Well-respected Pompeiian Glaucus performs an act of kindness by purchasing Nydia, a blind slave being mistreated by her owner. Nydia falls in love with her new master, but he only has eyes for Ione. Ione in turn is lusted after by Arbace, an Egyptian high priest of Isis. When Nydia beseeches Isis for help in capturing Glaucus' heart, Arbace gives her a "love" potion-- an elixir made to drive Glaucus mad, securing Ione for himself. Ultimately, Mount Vesuvius will end their lives and seal their fates in a terrible, glorious eruption.

Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.

The 1914 Italian version of William Shakespeare's Othello.

During the carnival the painter Marcello, who has just sold a painting, meets his beautiful neighbour Lucy, disguised as Pierette. That very night Marcello leaves at home his girlfriend Giulia, to bring Lucy to the masked ball. At night, as the two are at the ball, Lucy’s mother doesn’t feel well and calls for help. Giulia, hearing the cry, quickly assists her. As Giulia notices, that the woman is going to die without having seen her daughter a last time, she decides to disguise herself as Pierrette. Kneeling beside the bed of the dying woman, she hears her say the last words: “My daughter”. (Cineteca MNC)