In a sacred city of Tibet, the cruel Grand Khan, who has been usurping power for 15 years, orders that Zemgali, a young woman loved by Prince Roundhito-Sing, be taken to his palace.

Anna's lover Morel, a banker who produces the film, is becoming more and more jealous and takes advantage of the Prince's naivety to make him sign a bad check for a large sum of money.

To disarm Morel's jealousy Anna tells him she doesn't love the Prince, who is devastated when he overhears their conversation.

This would give him access to the important means of the Russian Cinema School of Paris but would oblige him to make a more commercial film than what he had done until then.

La Cinématographie Française characterised it as "a strange and fantastical adventure in which the middle part is taking place in a chimerical Asia, allowing artists such as Epstein for cutting and lighting, Lochakoff for the sets, Mozzhukhin for the interpretation and Bilinsky for the costumes, to indulge in wonderful extravagances.

[4] The film was reconstructed in 1966 by Marie Epstein on the basis of the original camera negative acquired by the Cinémathèque Française in 1958 and lost since.