A blind playwright is engaged to his assistant, and the two are close to completion of a new play, which is so dark and morbid that they find themselves on the brink of breakdowns. A greedy agent who has admired the playwright's previous work will stop at nothing to secure the play for himself.
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Ruth Roland as Sylvia Smalley
Ed Brady as Leroux
William Conklin as Charles Edmay
Lucy Blake as Alice Mason
Makoto Inokuchi as Togo
United States 31 August 1917
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