- Rinaldo Raynaldi, a business man, is unable to pay a note of $150,000. He tries to win the shortage at a game. He takes with him all the money that his safe contains and goes to a gambling house, where he loses his last penny. In order to save himself from ruin and dishonor he feigns a theft, and to make the scheme more realistic, hides some valuable titles in the house of his manager, Valeri. The theft is discovered. After an investigation by the police, the hidden titles are found in Valeri's house. Valeri cannot understand the plot, and in front of that terrible accusation loses his mind. Twelve years have elapsed. The poor Valeri is still in the insane asylum. His wife, reduced to poverty, is sick in the country, and Lydia, their only daughter, is in the city working. One day Lydia receives a letter in which her mother, before dying, reveals to her daughter that Raynaldi has been the cause of their misfortune. Lydia goes to Raynaldi for a job and is accepted as a typewriter. Raynaldi and his son Emilo fall in love with the girl, who, in order to get revenge, does not reject Raynaldi's courting. One day Raynaldi, in exchange of Lydia's love, offers her a rich apartment in an elegant villa. Emilo goes often to see her. He knows that he is his father's rival, but he has seen that Lydia is not indifferent to his love, and indeed, Lydia loves him. One day Lydia thinks of putting Raynaldi in front of her insane father, Valeri. She asks permission from the director of the asylum to have her father in her house for a few hours. She then invites Raynaldi to see her. When Raynaldi arrives, the insane Valeri appears before him. He believes this to be a horrible dream, and Lydia, who is present at the scene, accuses him of the theft, at the same time revealing herself to him as the daughter of his victim. The shock kills Raynaldi. Lydia has avenged her father. The insane was taken back to the asylum, and Lydia decides to leave the city forever. She goes to bid Emilo her last good-bye, and ask forgiveness for the pain she caused him. But Emilo's love for Lydia is too strong. He asks her to be his wife, and is accepted.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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