In this revealing late silent, Garbo plays a rebellious San Francisco debutante who determines to overturn the double standard which allows men to have affairs with impunity and denies women the same privilege. She meets a pugilist sailor-turned-artist (Nils Asther) and takes off with him on his yacht, the All Alone. On her return, she is indeed all alone, shunned by everyone except an old admirer (John Mack Brown) whom she gratefully marries. Garbo invests her character with layers of understanding: it seems that she, alone, comprehends the ironic defeat of this happy ending.