Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters.

When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever.

They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her.

Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love.

The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy with the equally corrupt Robespierre.

De Vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat,

Date : 1921
Cast : Lillian Gish as Henriette Girard
Dorothy Gish as Louise
Joseph Schildkraut as Chevalier de Vaudrey
Frank Losee as Count de LiniÁEEE¨res
Catherine Emmet as Countess de LiniÁEEE¨res
Morgan Wallace as Marquis de Praille
Lucille La Verne as Mother Frochard
Frank Puglia as Pierre Frochard
Sheldon Lewis as Jacques Frochard
Creighton Hale as Picard
Leslie King as Jacques-Forget-Not
Monte Blue as Georges Jacques Danton
Sidney Herbert (actor) as Maximilien de Robespierre
Lee Kohlmar as Louis XVI
Louis Wolheim as Executioner