Susie (Lillian Gish) is a plain country girl with a big-heart who ever since childhood loves her neighbor Bill (Robert Harron). The unselfish girl, without Bill’s knowledge, sacrifices part of her farm to send the boy to an out-of-town college (she sells her favorite cow Daisy). He thinks his unknown benefactor is a strange man he once met, who predicted great things for him. Bill works his way through school as the dorm waiter, and fights those who call him by the unflattering nickname of Butter. He visits Susie sporting a mustache, and graduates to be a minister. But the callow and dull lad is seduced by party girl Bettina (Clarine Seymour), who wants a convenient marriage with someone she can pull the wool over his eyes. While married, she continues to party with her friend Sporty and her girlfriends without Bill’s knowledge. It becomes a question if the good girl Susie can find a way to get together again with Bill, her lost soul mate.