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Helga is a young unmarried mother who breaks into the trial of the child?s father to prevent him from committing perjury. Gudmund, present at the trial, is impressed by the girl?s courage and convinces his parents to take her on as a servant girl. Some time later, Gudmund himself is suspect of murder. His fiancée, Hilda, abandons him. Once again, Helga is the means whereby the truth is to be known. The first adaptation by Sjöström as from a short story by writer Selma Lagerlöf, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909.