Thymian is raped by her father's assistant. When she becomes pregnant and bears a child but refuses to marry her assailant, her outraged father sends her to a brutal reformatory. Thymian soon escapes with a friend, Erika (Edith Meinhard),only to learn that her child has died. She then finds Erika working at a brothel and, with no other option, joins her. Gradually, Thymian works her way up in life by marrying a count, but her past haunts her.
Diary of a Lost Girl
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
