Mary Pickford portrays Tess, a young woman living in poverty with her father within a makeshift settlement beside a lake. He earns a meager income through poaching until a dead body – that of the gamekeeper – turns up, and he becomes suspected of murder. This situation understandably upsets Tess, but she finds kindness from Frederick (Harold Lockwood) and his sister Teola (Olive Carey), who introduce her to faith. Us…