When a young bride, newly entered into society, discovers she is pregnant, she consults an old friend on the most effective means of abortion. The friend gives her a potent drug, and that night the woman locks herself in her room, presses the potion bottle to her lips, falls across her bed and begins to dream. In her dream, her husband finds out about her abortion and demands a divorce. Years pass and the woman, now decrepit and alone, is visited by the ghost of her "Child-That-Might-Have-Been." The ghost takes her on a spiritual journey where she sees her husband, who is remarried and happy with his own family, hundreds of smiling babies wrapped in flowers in Babyland, and finally her own death and damnation. At her demise, she wakes from her nightmare, joyful to find the drug untouched, and rushes to tell her husband about her impending motherhood.—Pamela Short

A man and a woman who have long been sweethearts are married and are supremely happy in each other's love. Some months after the wedding husband and wife are in attendance at a ball, when suddenly the wife is seized with an intense revulsion against her husband. To him the sudden transition is inexplicable. With her, however, the case is different. She knows what her sudden revulsion means, the coming of a child. The young wife is horror-stricken as she grasps the truth of what has come about. The young wife is loath to give up society. In desperation, she goes to the home of an elderly woman friend, who has knowingly placed herself at the young wife's disposal. From the friend is obtained a deadly potion, a potion that will destroy the young life and restore the prospective mother to the condition in which she may enjoy to the fullest limit the follies which society offers. With the bottle clasped to her bosom, the young wife locks herself in her bed-chamber, intent on following the advice of her friend. Dramatically she places the bottle to her lips, and then falls in a swoon across the bed. A doctor is standing at the bedside of this young woman. He is sadly shaking his head, while across the room sits the husband. He cannot realize the motive which prompted his wife to do as she has done. He follows the course of least resistance. A decree of divorce is obtained. The husband again establishes a home in which he is happy with a loving wife and children. For a time the young divorcee is happy and gay, enjoying to the fullest measure the life which she preferred to motherhood. Then comes old age and loneliness. Though plentifully supplied with money, there is an emptiness which funds cannot fill. Day after day, the woman is alone in her large house surrounded by none but servants. Then come visions, visions of a stairway to heaven, up which angels are leading mothers and children. Then comes a vision of death, and the old woman sees herself refused entrance at the gates of heaven. She is turned away, and ordered to the region of everlasting punishment. The visions continue. A sprightly child takes the withered hand, and she is led about through the world. Everywhere, in the kingdoms of animals and plants, she is shown happiness which attends the rearing of young. All this happiness she sees as she is guided by the infant, and it all is denied her through the act of her younger days. Then comes the awakening. Once more she is the bride of a few months. She is lying across her bed clasping tightly in her hands the bottle which contains the deadly potion. She has seen what the future had in store for her. With a cry she throws the bottle from her, and the hateful contents fall into a bed of flowers, withering and killing the plants it touches. Joyfully, the bride calls to her husband, and the secret is whispered into his ear. He clasps his wife in his arms, and both are happy in the joy which is to come. The little life completes its long journey and arrives at the home it is to bless. There never was a couple more joyful, more supremely happy. The nightmare of the vision has passed. The wife has learned her lesson and learned it well.—Moving Picture World synopsis