Our Other Lives (1916)

Dorothy Palmer meets Winthrop, a young medical student, at a class dance. She proves to be the mysterious girl of Winthrop's dream, which takes him back to a period of time one thousand years ago when he was madly in love with this same face and was tortured to death by a wicked king who desired to place her in his court. Winthrop also recognizes in young Markton his kingly enemy of long ago. Inevitably the trio engage in a battle with Fate. Markton is at first successful and wins Dorothy's promise of marriage. Under the occult influence of Winthrop, she refuses to marry Markton and turns to Winthrop. Following up his advantage, the young medical student, now a famous brain specialist, performs a delicate operation upon Dorothy's brain removing all of her memory lines and leaving her with the brain of a child. He takes her to a quiet cottage by the sea, and there develops her character into a passionate love for him. Again Markton appears upon the scene and finds Dorothy in her new life more desirable than ever. Winthrop falls over a cliff and Markton discovering him, decides to leave him to his fate. Just as the rising tide is about to take his life, Dorothy's new character asserts itself and she saves her husband's life, and puts Markton out of sight and mind forever.

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