[1] Shortly after marrying a man, Nadine Fortier travels through the desert to a distant city to visit her dying mother.

Nadine eventually becomes the property of Norman Stone, an American criminal who is on the run from the police.

Upon confronting him, Norman admits that her husband had several clandestine meetings with his sister and that he was accidentally shot to death in his presence.

Gilbert was praised for his portrayal of a sheik, but the actor himself loathed it and made sure he later would not appear again in that sort of character.

[4] Barbara La Marr was praised by the critics too, with the film magazine Moving Picture World stating that "the forlorn lovesickness of the sheik’s daughter [is] unusually effective".