[1][2] It tells the story of an attractive young woman who is seduced and kidnapped by a Mormon missionary, then forced to accompany him to Utah to become one of his wives.
[3] Florence Grange (Clara Pontoppidan), a pretty young Danish woman, is vacationing with her father, her brother, George, and her fiancé, Leslie, at a luxurious seaside hotel in Denmark.
One evening, while they are sitting in the restaurant, George introduces them to a young American named Andrew Larson (Valdemar Psilander).
While the two race off on a wild goose chase, Andrew conceals Florence in a dark, dank cellar with a secret trapdoor entrance.
Realizing that they were tricked, Leslie and George burst back into Andrew's house and search desperately for Florence, but cannot find her.
Other cast: Franz Skondrup as the Police Detective; Emilie Sannom as Nancy, the First Wife; Otto Lagoni as Andrew's Mormon friend; Frederik Jacobsen as Florence's Father; Nicolai Brechling as the Telegraph Operator; Carl Petersen as the Police Officer; Axel Boesen; H.C. Nielsen; and Doris Langkilde.
August Blom, the studio's bright new director and later head of production, had a flair for melodrama and he was chosen to direct.
The studio's new star, Valdemar Psilander, who had earlier that year achieved international recognition in At the Prison Gates (Ved Fængslets Port), was cast as the villain.
and "This exciting and effective modern drama, which reveals the Latter Day Saints ruthless propaganda, is one of film's great international successes.
The church presidency complained to the American National Board of Censorship, demanding that all references to Mormonism in the title and content of the film be removed.
[6] The movie proved to be enormously successful internationally, not only because of an effective promotional campaign which emphasized the attempted ban, but also due to the popularity of its star, Valdemar Psilander.
During the following decade, the output of anti-Mormon propaganda films flourished with Mormon villains portrayed variously as white slavers, mesmerizing Svengalis and ruthless terrorists.