Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

When her employer dies, leaving her penniless, Nora Marsh (Burke) decides to make her home with her brother Edward (Johnston) in Canada. However, she cannot get along with her sister-in-law Gertie (Alden) and it soon starts getting really difficult. Their hired man Frank Taylor (Meighan) owns a farm of his own but a storm has destroyed his crops and forced him to work and he leaves for his farm shortly after Nora's arrival. She hears him saying he is looking for a wife and decides to propose marriage to him so they both could make a home together. They get married and he takes her to his house but unfortunately, tragedy soon strikes when Taylor's crops are destroyed. Around the same time, Nora receives money from England and begins thinking about leaving Taylor and her life in USA but when she learns that he might have to go out to look for work again, she decides to stay and help him out with the money she has received.—mahajanssen