Plot Summary:Isebill's father has married for the second time, and she cannot get along with the new mother. He tries to push the daughter to a boarding school, but she escapes to America with young Hans, where the two build their own existence.
Isabel, the daughter of a wealthy banker fails to gain the affection of her young stepmother, who uses her influence to have Isabel sent away to school. There, Isabel meets a young man and elopes with him to America. Later in life she is reunited with her father.