A young sculptor searches for the perfect model to inspire his work.

A waif-like, poverty stricken girl is discovered by a young sculptor to be the embodiment of the perfect model he has always longed for. When she wanders off he visits all the famous statues in Manhattan hoping to find her again.—<[email protected]>

A young sculptor had given up finding the model he wanted as an inspiration for his work, when some of his friends accidentally run into a girl on Washington Square. They learn, after making sure that she is not hurt, that she is in search of work, and they take her to the young sculptor's studio. Disgusted with the other models which his wealthy friends have sent him, in hopes of helping him find his ideal, the artist unwillingly consents to give the girl an opportunity. When she takes the model stand, she falls into the pose which is that of the model of his dreams. Her fame spreads through the colony and she has many opportunities to pose. At first she does so unwillingly, for she cares only to pose for the young artist. He urges her to, however, and she does. She is the model for Daniel Chester French's statue "Evangeline," now in front of Longfellow's home in Cambridge. Next she poses for "History" for Allan Newman, which tops the state Capitol of Florida. When competitions and contracts for artwork for the Panama-Pacific Exposition are announced, and work is begun by New York's artists, she again is sought after eagerly, and is the model for Adolph Weinman's "Descending Night,'' Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's "Fountain of Eldorado," Daniel Chester French's "Genius of Creation" and many others. When the statue for which she poses for the young artist is finished, she realizes that she loves him. But she thinks that he cares for some of the wealthy girls who have frequently visited his studio, so she goes away, leaving him a note. For the first time, the artist knows that he loves the model. He searches for her, but cannot find her. Then he gives up, and goes out into the city to look at her in the works of art, in which her face and figure have been used as a model, to the "Firemen's Monument," the Pulitzer Memorial, the Williamsburg bridge, the Municipal Building, finally to the Maine monument at Columbus Circle. There he really finds her, crumpled and exhausted at the base, just out of the hospital, where she has been alone and ill since she left him. And now the story ends, the two will leave together to visit the Exposition at San Francisco, before they return to settle down for life in Bohemia.—Moving Picture World synopsis