
In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.

as Louise Jarraud

as Ernest Volnar-Bussel

as Mona Lorenza

as Émile Perrette

as Investigating judge

as Antoine Lancelot

as Madame Breuilly

as Gérard Volnar-Bussel

as Mademoiselle Eugénie

as Madame Forneret

as Madame Volnar-Bussel

as Young dancer

as Henri Forneret

as Dominique

as Doctor

as Inspector Duval

as Mona Lorenza's impressario

as Julien

as Head nurse

as d'Aubigny

as Gossip

as Georgette Volnar-Bucel

as Pierre Breuilly

as Little girl

as Little boy

as Foreign impresario

as Lotte Lorenza

as Gossip (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as Pons (uncredited)

as Pauline (uncredited)

as (uncredited)

as Gossip (uncredited)

as Madame Berger, director of the placement office (uncredited)

as Little boy (uncredited)

as Concierge (uncredited)