Norman Stockton is a young bank cashier. He is falsely accused of misapplication of some of the bank's funds, which in reality were taken by George Belden, one of Stockton's fellow employees. To avoid the disgrace wrongfully brought to his name, Stockton flees to the far North and becomes a prospector for gold. Meanwhile Belden, who has designs upon Stockton's wife, makes his attentions to her extremely obnoxious. At length Bess decides to follow her husband and goes North in search of him. Her ship is struck by lightning. She and her babe are rescued by Stockton himself, but the mother's reason has fled and for sixteen years she dwells beneath her husband's roof not knowing who he is and recalling none of the events preceding her awful experience at sea. Harvey Wakefield, a young engineer, is in love with Laurine, Stockton's daughter, and has been promised her hand in marriage. One night comes an electrical storm. Stockton's little cabin is struck by a bolt of lightning. All escape uninjured and the shock is found to have restored the reason of the now gray-haired woman. She narrates events of the past and with a heart filled with thanks, flings herself into the arms of her husband. Happiness reigns supreme in the ruined cabin as the lovers, young and old, embrace.
—Moving Picture World synopsis