After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den. Selina is reduced to teaching in a high school in the Dutch community at High Prarie near Chicago. She boards in the farmhouse of Klass Poole, a dull-witted market gardener, and finally marries Pervus DeJong, a poor and backward farmer. She shares the drudgery of her husband's futile life and finds happiness only in their small son, Dirk, whom she calls "So-Big."
Colleen Moore
as Selina Peake
Joseph De Grasse
as Simeon Peake
John Bowers
as Pervus DeJong
Ben Lyon
as Dirk DeJong
Wallace Beery
as Klaus Poole
Gladys Brockwell
as Maartje Poole
Jean Hersholt
as Aug Hempel
Charlotte Merriam
as Julie Hempel
Dot Farley
as Widow Paarlenburg
Ford Sterling
as Jacob Hoogenduck
Frankie Darro
as Dirk DeJong (child)
Henry Hebert
as William Storm (as Henry Herbert)
