A middle-aged bachelor in his apartment, or den, lights his pipe and, after looking fondly at a photograph on the mantel, sits smoking in his arm-chair near the open fireplace. As the logs smolder his fancy wanders to the one love story of his life. The face of his first and last sweetheart looks out of the rising smoke, and the scene dissolves into the incidents of the love story which pass before his mind. As the simple, pretty and pathetic story is unfolded and finally dissolves into the bachelor's den again, the fire dies out and the lonely bachelor stands looking into the ashes, which typify his life's story.
—Moving Picture World synopsis