Mary Johnson's father, the Count, is dead. Her cousin, Lily Cronwin, in concert with her uncle, Carl Barcklind, decide to move her to the country estate, where she is trained unwillingly in the old ways. She starts to run away, but is retrieved by handsome young Nil Olaf Crisander. They fall in love, but Miss Cronwin stops all mail and writes Barcklind that he is not of a suitable rank to marry Miss Johnson. So Crisander is transferred far away, and Miss Johnson goes to live miserably with her uncle. But fate has more in store for the young lovers, and Barcklind too.
As a story it lacks all subtlety, and director Georg af Klercker directs his performers to play it broadly, so the audience can have no doubt that the youngsters are wonderful and true, and the old people are not just mistaken, obnoxious snobs, unconcerned with anything that anyone but they want. For what it is, it is well presented, but utterly one-note in its characterizations or story.
