本故事通过两个孤女的命运和不同遭遇，展现了十八世纪末期法国社会的真实面貌，揭露了贵族荒淫无耻的生活，歌颂了善良正直的人们。
车辚辚、马萧萧。驿车内的乘客中有两个年轻貌美的孤女——一个叫亨丽叶,另一个叫路易丝。她们是因父亲死后,无依无靠,才乘这驿车到巴黎投奔亲戚去的,眼看巴黎就要到了,可谁知偏在这途中碰上了不测的意外。这天,普莱斯勒侯爵和侍从拉弗勒在林中策马奔驰,巧遇驿车停歇林中,亨丽叶随众下车休......

Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey is kind to her, and they fall in love. The French Revolution replaces the corrupt Aristocracy with the equally corrupt Robespierre. De Vaudrey, who has always been good to peasants, is condemned to death for being an aristocrat, and Henriette for harboring him. Will revolutionary hero Danton, the only voice for mercy in the new regime, be able to save them from the guillotine?

專題另一部默片來自德國的喜劇之王劉別謙，是他應美國傳奇女星瑪麗碧克馥之邀到荷里活執導的首部作品《風流歌女》（1923）。同是曲折的愛情故事，大師靈巧優雅的電影語言及自成一家的「劉別謙筆觸」，令美國觀眾為之傾倒。