- After her mother dies, a young girl is sent with her little sister to live with their aunt and uncle, who treat her terribly. The aunt and uncle run a show at the Panama exposition and turn her into a human butterfly.
- The scene of the story is laid at San Diego in the grounds of the Panama Exposition, and centers about a young girl whose mother, near death, has sent her with her little sister to look up her aunt. The aunt, who, with her unscrupulous husband, runs a show at the exposition, figures as the human butterfly. The girl is persecuted for her beauty by her uncle, takes refuge with the Hawaiian players, and finally is taken to a good home by a rich family from Honolulu. The production has not much merit as a drama, but is interesting partly because of the exposition scenes which it presents.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Pep O'Mally and her little sister Bess are left in the care of their aunt, a trapeze artist at the exposition. Her aunt's manager, Marcus Renshaw, awed by Bess's beauty, offers to make her "the butterfly girl." Becoming frightened of Renshaw's advances, Pep runs away and finds a job with the Hawaiian dancers. There she falls in love with Robert Whipple, Jr., whom she later discovers is the son of a wealthy family. Believing that Robert's family will never accept her, and broken-hearted at the thought of a separation, Pep throws herself into the crater of the facsimile of Kilavea, imitating a legend of a Hawaiian girl who ended her life in the real volcano. She is saved by Robert, who promises Pep that his family will love her as much as he does.—Pamela Short
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