The World and the Woman

In The World and the Woman, Jeanne Eagels portrays Mary, a prostitute who reluctantly accepts a more respectable position as a maid at a rural lodge. Within this wooded community, she begins attending church and the path to Salvation becomes clear. Through Mary's faith, the injured folk of the countryside are healed. Yet her former employer, whose lustful advances she had previously spurned, continues to press his designs on her.