Experience(1921)

“And Youth takes his fling! Drinks all the joy of life and finds- the dregs! Then stumbles, falls, sinks so deep that only Love can find him.”

Overview

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.