Dorothy Gish

Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work.

At the start of WWI, an American boy living in a small French village falls in love with a young girl but as the battle nears and they become separated, he is forced to go behind German enemy lines in order to rescue the woman he loves.