An old scientist all his life has labored in his laboratory to discover the secret of the creation of human life. At last he happens on an ancient book which gives him the clue. And he brings into being a woman, beautiful but incapable of love. He shows her happy lovers, that she may see what love means. He takes her to where a mother is singing her baby to sleep, that she may realize how love finds fulfillment. Then he leads her where a father and mother are weeping together over the grave of their child, hoping thus to reveal to her sorrow and the meaning of renunciation. But the woman fails to respond. A young organist visits the scientist, and he and Naidra, the dream woman, fall in love. The old scientist, who has come to love his Galatea deeply, is filled with grief to see that where he has failed, another has succeeded. As the organist is about to kiss Naidra, the scientist rushes forward and awakes to find that Naidra and his love for her is all a dream.