John Emerson directed and Eric von Stroheim was one of the assistant directors.

[3] Radha is a lower-caste Hindu orphan girl, raised by Ramlan, a sword maker.

Witnessing the scene, a British officer, Captain Townsend, offers her a book Less Than the Dust, and Other Indian Love Lyrics; he soon returns to England.

Ramlan reveals to Radha that her father was in fact British, a certain Captain Brooke, who died of an opium overdose.

The Moving Picture World saluted Pickford's return to the screen after a few months hiatus.