An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year’s Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to…

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

Orphan Virginia is left destitute following her father’s death and her uncle’s alcoholism; she finds refuge with bohemians but is forced to flee, eventually finding romance and a life-altering experience…