An isolated house in deserted area is too remote for a servant, who leaves a note, quietly exits the back door, and puts the key under the mat. Alone in the house is a mother and her infant. A tramp watches the servant leave, then begins to skulk. The woman sees him outside as he discovers the latchkey. She phones her husband, who's working in town, and he jumps into a car idling in front of his office. He races toward home while the car's owner (and the police) are in pursuit. The tramp grabs a knife and heads up the stairs toward the defenseless woman. Can the husband elude the police long enough to rescue her or will the tramp have his way?

植物园主威廉姆·霍克斯部赞成夏威夷岛上大部分男人结婚的情况，不愿与当地女孩结为连理。他不赞成混血的婚姻，同样也不赞同当地女孩提供给他的“天赋之爱”。一天晚上，在长达数小时的狂喝烂饮之后，他醉醺醺地来到海边，看到蕾拉妮正在海滨沐浴，他目不转睛的看着她，再也无法抗拒她美丽侗体的诱惑。他把蕾拉妮拥入怀中，蕾拉妮也情不自禁地接受了他的拥抱。于是，她与他生活在了一起并期待与他结成美满姻缘。一次，霍克斯为了植物方面的合约到了旧金山。当他回来时，他带回了交际花露西勒·切尼作为他的妻子。蕾拉妮的心碎了。然而，露希勒很快厌倦了她的丈夫和夏威夷。当贤得勒·默里斯驾驶一叶轻舟来到这个港口，露西勒开始与他私通。霍克斯为了忘掉此事，酗酒更厉害了。他抓住了露西勒和贤得勒，并发生了械斗。露西勒为了拯救她的情人的性命，她把一盏油灯挂在一根绳子上，油灯的光芒铺展在水面上……..

A young working girl, struggling to support her family on her meager salary, desperately wishes for a new pair of shoes.

The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the Professor, businessman Olsen, has money and lots of food, while the Griggs have hardly any. Both Peter Olsen and Reverend Gates are taken by the beauty of young Amelia Griggs. When rich son Phil West falls for Amelia Griggs and befriends the poor Reverend Gates, he finally sees the difference in his life and theirs and tries to do something to change that.

The most important and prolific of all American women directors of the silent era, Lois Weber entered films in 1907 at Gaumont, working alongside Alice Guy-Blaché. In the ensuing years, she and her husband Phillips Smalley acted in, directed, wrote and edited films for Gaumont, Rex and Universal. By 1914, Weber was a well-known director when she went to work for the Bosworth Company to make Hypocrites.
Hypocrites is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courteney Foote) is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of “Truth,” only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is the pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex and power.
Hypocrites was a shocking and controversial film whose release was held up for many months by the difficulty of distributing a film with full nudity. Weber’s sincerity and reputation allowed her to use something that in the hands of a male director would have been considered scandalous and immoral. Widely admired at the time for extraordinary use of multiple exposures and intricate editing, Hypocrites propelled Weber to the front ranks of silent directors.

The prohibition is in full swing and Egypt Hagen, a new woman, is the constant subject of controversy in her religious small town. After a scandalous night of partying leaves her publicly shamed, she finds unlikely companionship in the town's new reverend. As their bond intensifies under the watchful eye of concerned townsfolk, her sullied reputation threatens his standing as a respected clergyman.

According to this Lois Weber production, men don't really seem to know what they want at all -- first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, Hallie (the lovely Claire Windsor). Then he wants children. Then, when his inventions bring him financial success, he becomes restless, so he takes up with another woman. Eventually he figures out that the woman's reputation is less than squeaky clean, so he wants his wife back.