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Marianne, a fresh and bubbly French heroine, runs an inn and also a nursery in a small French town during World War I.  Separated from her childhood sweetheart, André, she promises to wait for him.

Her town is partially destroyed, and a company of American soldiers is quartered there, awaiting orders to return home.  Fond of a pig about to be slaughtered, Marianne claims it as a pet and goes through much to save it from becoming bacon, in the process captivating Private Stagg, who is put in the stockade for trying to rescue the porcine object of her affections from a ravenous lieutenant.

Marianne and Stagg fall in love, but are reconciled to parting when André returns home blinded, and Stagg ships off for home.  She soon perceives that André is in love with his nurse and, gathering up her quartet of war orphans, leaves for America and her man.