'Keith is to marry a girl with whom his friend Mark is also in love. While she is absent abroad Mark causes Keith to break a promise made to her that he will not take intoxicants, well knowing that with drink he will become utterly degraded. Later Mark's treachery comes to light. In the delirium of drink Keith kills him, but when he comes to his senses he does not recall his crime, and endeavours to hunt down the murderer of his friend. With a return to drink he has a tragic realisation that he is the murderer.'
Source: 'Miscellaneous Works', Australasian, 23 August 1919, p.47.
Designed for screen and stage combination. Atkinson intended 'that the lifeless, artificial scenery used today could be effectually replaced by cinema views of people and objects cast from behind the screen, and made to harmonise with the acting on the stage' ('Australian Plays', Herald, 22 September 1927, p.26).
