A doctor's guilt over a patient's death leads him to take a peculiar interest in the 14-year-old daughter, who exhibits troubled behavior and mental challenges. He adopts her as his "ward", despite his fiancée's disapproval. Upon his return from a three-year absence, he finds the girl four years older, but her naivety remains unchanged. As he rediscovers his feelings for her, he's faced with the complication that she's engaged to his fiancée's younger brother.
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The doctor, haunted by his inability to save the mother, forms a bond with her grieving young daughter.