The artist's wife and baby leave for a trip abroad and are shipwrecked. He believes them lost, but the baby is washed up on shore and adopted by a fisherman. Grown to womanhood, she is loved by a tourist who visits the fishing village. Her fisherman lover, in a fit of jealousy, attacks the tourist. Both fall over a cliff and are thought to have been killed. But the tourist later meets the artist, who believes that he identifies the fisher-girl as his daughter. Searching for Celeste they find her eventually as an artist's model.