Runa, a spoiled little girl, resents the arrival of a baby brother, who takes attention from her. She and the nurse and baby go to the park and while there she sees a stork, and is told by the nurse that the bird brought her little brother. She decides to make it take back the intruder. While the attention of the nurse is attracted, she removes the baby and leaves him by the stork pond. Some time before this. Runa had investigated the pail of a workman who is tarring a tree. When the nurse returns she finds the print of a black hand on the bench where the baby was. It is quite clear to the police that the child has been taken by the Black Hand. Angela has had a quarrel with her lover, Angelo, owing to the fact that she has no dowry and therefore cannot marry him. She is weeping in the park when she hears the baby's cries and goes to it. Her pity overcomes her and she takes it home. Angelo returning once more to beg her pardon, finds the child and is suspicious. The girl then explains the finding of the baby. He discovers the print of a black hand on its clothes. They are terrified and decide to return the child where they found it. Before they can do so, they are arrested and brought to the station house where they meet the unhappy parents. Runa, now repentant, confesses and when the baby is restored, the father and mother embrace her. She leaves the print of her little black hands on her mother's dress. All is then discovered. She explains that she returned the baby to the stork because since it came nobody loves her any more. Father and mother, realizing how they have hurt the child, forgive her. Angela gets her dowry through the reward offered by the father for the one who finds his child.