Eugène Brieux

An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

A socialite couple thinks only of themselves. When they become bored with one another, they divorce and marry others (several times). The person who suffers most from their cavalier outlook on life is their cute little daughter Mary Jane Irving.

"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of hereditary traits to future generations.

A quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.