A semi-physical picture giving us the adventures of a body with first one soul and then another. It opens with a series of tableaux which begin by showing a baby who has just arrived in earthy being with a soul destined to be a thief (he is shown later as a kleptomaniac). Edwin August plays this weak character, in its story of struggle with suffering for a strange yet criminal tendency. In this, there are some good scenes, strongly acted; but the story isn't very successful; it won't be believed. The ending of the man by a stroke of lightning makes a sensational incident and then we find the body coming out of its death trance with a soul of a great painter, dead some two hundred years, and of course this isn't believable. Yet there is a peculiar fascination in the offering; the players and the photography make it seem at moments weird. A fair offering with strong pictures on the bill. - The Moving Picture World, August 30, 1913
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