Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Lillian Gish
as Angela Chiaromonte

Ronald Colman
as Capt. Giovanni Severi

Gail Kane
as Marchesa di Mola

J. Barney Sherry
as Monsignor Saracinesca

Charles Lane
as Prince Chiaromonte

Juliette La Violette
as Madame Bernard

Gustavo Serena
as Prof. Ugo Severi

Alfredo Bertone
as Filmore Durand

Roman Ibanez
as Count del Ferice

Alfredo Martinelli
as Alfredo del Ferice
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Lilian Gish pulls out all the stops in this rather sad melodrama about the young daughter of "Prince Chiaromonte". She is his daughter by a second marriage, and when he dies in a riding accident - she finds herself cast out by her elder half-sister who has destroyed the old man's will. Luckily she h...