Vidas cruzadas

A young mother with a baby is on a train going back to their Homecountry. The baby has died of unknown causes. Young mother is devastated. She wants the dead baby to be buried in their Homecountry. The Border control poses many problems for her in her journey. Passengers around her are also causing problems. The young mother has to pretend that the baby is alive. In one moving scene the mother has to sing to her dead baby to fool the border officers as well as the nosy passengers.

A young child is torn between her estranged divorced biological mother and her father's new wife.

When neglected wife Blanche Probert reminds her husband Fred of their theater engagement one evening, he insists that he must work, and she invites his friend Edward Martindale to take his place. Later that night, Edward tries to kiss Blanche just as Fred returns home, and although she is innocent of any wrongdoing, her outraged husband divorces her. Fred rears his son Fred, Jr. while Blanche takes custody of little Edith, and there is no contact between them for 14 years. Having run out of money, Blanche is forced to become the proprietor of an elegant gambling establishment, "The House of Mirrors," which is frequented by Fred, Jr. as well as Edward's son, Tom Martindale. The young men are introduced to Edith as "Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones," and soon, both are in love with her. When Fred asks Blanche for Edith's hand, she recognizes his ring as the one she had given her husband years before. Fred visits Blanche, who still maintains her innocence, and after Edward confirms her story, the Probert family is reconciled and Edith becomes engaged to Tom.