After her lover (Alfred Sabato) is arrested for murder, his mistress (Mary Duncan) chooses to remain behind in the deserted logging camp to wait for him during the long cold winter. But when a young boy (Charles Farrell) in his self made houseboat arrives, they find themselves strongly attracted to each other. It's difficult to appropriately judge this Frank Borzage film because so much of it has been lost including the film's beginning, ending and some large chunks in between. Those sections are filled in by film stills and intertitles providing a narrative based on the film's shooting script. But what remains is a lovely, even erotic (Duncan climbing into a nude Farrell's bed), romance between an older disillusioned woman and a young man who is still a virgin. Mary Duncan is a real find for me. A great screen presence with strong sex appeal. When, after a long separation, the two meet and he insists they celebrate and he takes out the checkers board, her look is priceless! What we have is good so I can only imagine how even better the film would be if so much of it hadn't been lost. With Ivan Linow as the deaf mute.
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