As described in a
film magazine, a modern man and woman quarrel and, in reaction to his wife, the husband recalls all the women in history who have failed their husbands or lovers. Being in an unpleasant state, he recalls
Adam in the garden with a very vain
Eve who disports herself in a Broadway fashion and causes the downfall of
caveman-like Adam. Then he dwells on the hideous betrayal of
Claudius by an unfaithful
Messalina. Next he recalls the useless ruination of
Abelard by the charming
Heloise. Following this episode he remembers Cyrene (Story that seems to be inspired from
Selkies) and the fisherman, where the wife basely deserted her husband and children to swim once more in her seal skin that had been hidden from her for many years. A particularly disagreeable episode in which a young woman during the
American Civil War sacrifices a wounded soldier for a bauble. After this the modern woman returns and pins up a
Red Cross poster, and the modern man sees the many women of today as more or less uninspiring. An epilogue noted how
World War I made men realize the true value of women, and that women are working towards victory through good works in the Red Cross and other jobs.The film ends with the martyrdom in Europe of nurse
Edith Cavell. ==Cast==