Hearts in Exile plot
In Tsarist Russia, the attractive Anna Ivanovna has devoted her life to working among Russia's persecuted poor. She distributes food, medicine and money to them from a busy charity headquarters. Two men, separated from each other at their posts, are in love with Ivanovna; the poor doctor Paul, who helps as much as he can, and the rich merchant Serge, who donates money. The ruthless and lascivious police chief, also attracted by Ivanovna's beauty and virtue, decides to claim her and sentence them all three to fifteen years in Siberia and Eastern Russia on false charges.