A family feud erupts in the mountains of Kentucky.

Samson South leaves his mountain home as well as his sweetheart Sally Spicer, and goes to New York to paint. Under the influence of Adrienne Lescott, Samson becomes a successful artist and also a polished gentleman. A feud between the South and Hollman clans breaks out, however, so Samson must return to the mountains, where he finally manages to make peace between the families. Sally is both excited and frightened by Samson's return, since she still loves him but believes that she has lost him to Adrienne. After the clan feud is settled, however, Samson assures Sally that he loves her more than ever and will never leave her or the mountains again.—Pamela Short

Torn between a love for his mountain home and a mountain girl and a desire to work out a God-given talent with paint and canvas, Samson South, fighter and dreamer and a coming leader of the clans of the Souths, whose feudal activities with the Hollman faction in the Cumberland mountains have been halted by a truce, leaves for New York. Reluctantly he parts with Sally Miller, the sweetheart of his youth, and sighs at the prospect of lost association with nature's charms. At the zenith of his success, his crude ways fading under the polish of etiquette taught him by the beautiful sister of his artist-benefactor, who discovered him in the mountains, he is prompted to return because of the breaking out of hostilities anew. First avenging his father's earlier death, Samson South leads his clan in a desperate battle with the Hollman faction, liberating four of the Souths from jail and finally forcing the enemy to ask for permanent peace. Sally Miller improves the time of South's absence to add to her meager education with books, and she, taking inspiration from fashion magazines, improves as best she can her personal appearance. The absence of South has built a bridge of doubt as to whether his love for her has faded or his heart yielded to the pulchritude of the polished city girl. With Sally Miller again in his arms, doubt is dispelled and Samson finds his soul in the grip of a strong, heroic love and his yearning for the mountain fastness appeased.—Moving Picture World synopsis