The film stars Douglas Fairbanks, Eileen Percy, Richard Henry Cummings, Millard Webb, Eugene Ormonde, and Frank Campeau.

As described in a film magazine,[3] Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown (Fairbanks) learns that his mother was a great princess from the European province of Vulgaria but became an outcast because she did not marry royal blood.

On all sides his life is threatened by Black Boris (Campeau), who aspires to the throne.

Alexis, not knowing how to use a sword, puts up a poor fight and after a short struggle is sent flying down a steep precipice.

He is cured of his desires and is happy in his little home in New Jersey with his "patient listener" as Mrs. Alexis Caesar Napoleon Brown and a two-year-old to pass his time with.