Esmeralda, an Australian heiress played by Daisy Burrell, is courted by Lord Trafford (Owen Nares), an peerage of England in need of money. However, she refuses him and marries the man she loves, Norman Druce, a humble miner.<ref name=mpgsf>Robert Connelly, Jay Robert Nash, Stanley Ralph Ross, ''Motion Picture Guide Silent Film 1910-1936'' (1988), p. 132: "JUST A GIRL** (1916, Brit.) 7 reels Samuelson/Moss bw Owen Nares (Lord Trafford), Daisy Burrell (Esmeralda), J. Hastings Batson (The Duke), Minna Grey (The Duchess), Paul England (The Miner). In another of those British social-class soap operas, an Australian heiress rejects an impoverished lord to marry the miner she really loves. d, Alexander Butler; w, Harry Engholm (based on the novel by Charles Garvice)."</ref>