Essie, a mountain girl, moves in with a family of neighboring bootleggers when her father, also a bootlegger, is killed by federal agents. She falls in love with Tom, one of the family's brothers, but another brother, the violent and brutal Lem, decides he wants her for himself, and beats Tom badly. What the girl doesn't know is that it wasn't the feds who killed her father--it was Lem. Complications ensue.
Key credits listed on this page include Charles Brabin, Jay Gelzer, Albert Raboch, Emily Fitzroy, Burr McIntosh, Charles Emmett Mack, George Bancroft, and Fred Koser.