Philip (Leslie Howard Leslie Howard) has always wanted to be an artist, but eventually, he understands the gap between the ideal and the reality, he abandons the ideal and enters a drug school instead. There, Philip met a girl named Dred (Bette Davis Bette Davis). Although Dred did not read any books, her beauty touched Philip and made him fall in love deeply.
However, Dred did not choose Philip, who was poor and white, but eloped with a rich businessman. When Philip saw Dred again, she broke up with the rich businessman and was still pregnant with a child. Philip took in Dred, and the two started living together, but not long after that, Dred eloped with another man
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