Sowing the Wind(1921)
A woman with a past. A girl with a future. A rogue ready to destroy one as he had the other.
When Rosamond, a convent girl, discovers that her mother is Baby Brabant, a notorious queen of Petworth's gambling house, her ideals are shattered and she denounces her mother's life.
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