Plot

Angela (Mary Pickford) maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore.

Angela (Mary Pickford), who tends the lighthouse in an Italian fishing village while her two brothers, Antonio (Jean De Briac) and Mario (Eddie Phillips), are fighting at the front in World War I, finds a foreign sailor (Fred Thomson) washed ashore who pretends to be an American. Angela cares for him, and they fall in love and are secretly married. In aiding his escape, she realizes she has helped a German spy and caused her brother's death through the spy's actions, but, after being caught, the stranger jumps to his death over a cliff. A child is born to Angela and, temporarily deranged when her sweetheart Giovanni (Raymond Bloomer) returns blind from the war, the nuns at the convent give her baby to Maria (Evelyn Dumo), who has lost her own child. Maria is drowned in a storm, but Angela rescues her child from the same shipwreck and finds happiness in marriage with Giovanni.

Angela (Mary Pickford), an Italian girl, bids good-bye to her second brother Mario (Eddie Phillips), who is the youngest, as he goes off to join the troops in World War I. Then comes news that her older brother Antonio (Jean De Briac) has been killed in the war. Giovanni (Raymond Bloomer), who secretly loves Angela, tries to comfort her, and then he too is called. Left alone, Angela is made keeper of the lighthouse. A sailor washed ashore, Joseph (Fred Thomson), arrives and says that he is an American and a deserter. They are later secretly married. One night, he has Angela flash him a "love" signal using the lighthouse. The next morning, an Italian ship carrying wounded soldiers is reported as having been sunk at midnight, the hour when the signal was sent. Angela steals some chocolate from Tony (George Regas) for Joseph to take with him. When she arrives home, she hears Joseph murmur in his sleep a German phrase "Gott mit uns," and it dawns on her that her husband is a German spy. Tony traces the theft to her, and after he says that her wounded brother had been on the ship, she realizes that it was her signal that sent her brother to his death. She gives up her hidden sailor, Joseph, who still proclaims his love for her. Joseph breaks away from his jailers and plunges over a cliff to his death. Later, with her and Joseph's baby, Angela is happy with her old sweetheart Giovanni, who has returned from the war blind, and they are married.

Angela (Mary Pickford) maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore. However, the sailor turns out to be a German spy, and she is torn between her love for him and her realization that he is part of the enemy force that has destroyed her family.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>