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One beautiful day, a young woman (Dorothy Van Engle) shows up on Mrs
Saunders' (Alice B.Russell) doorstep, hands her over her baby Naomi and
asks her to raise the girl as her own since she knows Mrs Saunders is a
kind-hearted woman. Mrs Saunders accepts even though she already has a son
of her own, Jimmie.
9 years later: Naomi (Jacqueline Lewis) has grown up to be a rather
mean-spirited kid, to a point where she defies her teacher (Ethel Moses)
and when she's punished for it she starts a rumour that almost costs the
teacher her job, who is saved only by Naomi's (foster) mother, who then
decides it's best to send her girl to a convent school ...
Many years later: Mrs Saunders' son Jimmie (Carman Newsome) haas grown
up to be successful professionally, and since he has saved up his money,
he decides to invest it into a farm of his own, even though a gangster
tries to persuade him to invest it into a profitable gambling business.
But Jimmie is such a righteous man that he deplores gambling and turns the
offer down even though it would have meant lots of money. Jimmie is also
engaged to Eva (Ethel Moses again), the teacher's daughter, who wants to
marry him, the sooner the better. Then though Naomi (now played by Gloria
Press) returns from convent school, and she almost immediately falls in
love with Jimmie, and he seems to have tender feelings for his sister as
well. However, both Jimmie and Naomi decide to do the right thing, and
while he stays with Eva whom he loves anyways, she gives in to marry
Candy, a man Jimmie has handpicked for her but whom she deplores.
One year later: Naomi shows up on Mrs Saunders' doorstep, just like her
real mother did all those years ago, with her baby and asks Mrs Saunders
to take good care of it. She couldn't stand life with Candy any longer and
has run away, and now, without the burden of a baby she will run even
further to start anew ...
Years later once more: Naomi revisits the place where her foster mother
lives once more and takes a peak through the window, seeing a happy family
made up of her own son, Mrs Saunders, Jimmie and Eva and their kids -
Naomi is in tears and runs away ...
Like almost all all-black films this one was made on the dirt-cheap so
don't expect any elaborate sets or set-pieces or even elaborate direction.
What really brings this film down though is its incredibly stilted and
pretentious dialogues that smother each and every attempt to carry a
message with the film - and attempts are made aplenty.
Apart from modest historical interest, this one's not really worth your
while.
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