Jose weds Marta, the little Mexican girl, and later when she accompanies him and her father to the marketplace, whither they go to sell the products of their farm, she sees and is fascinated by a pretty dress. Jose promises to buy it for her out of the proceeds of his sales, and so she returns home with her father delighted in the anticipation of Jose's bringing the dress with him. He gets the dress, but stopping at the wayside inn he gives it away while under the influence of wine. He tells Marta he has lost it, but she sees the dress later on another woman. The shock unbalances her mind, in which condition she remains until the advent of a little one, which restores her reason and quite blots out the thought of the dress.
—Moving Picture World synopsis