Having risen to popularity in the films jointly directed by Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, Mary MacLaren remained with the husband-wife directorial team for several years, resulting in such superior efforts as Wanted - A Home. When Mina Rogers (McLaren) is orphaned, she is placed in the custody of her cranky old uncle, who denies her even the simplest of pleasures. Upon attending a Sunday School picnic against her uncle's wishes, Mina is summarily thrown out of her house. She spends the rest of the picture relying upon the kindness of strangers -- some of whom aren't all that kind -- before finding a permanent and happy home as the wife of nonjudgmental hero Harvey Gorman (Charles Marriott.