The film stars Violet Heming, Wilfred Lucas, Conway Tearle, Paul Doucet, Florence Deshon, and Lucille Hammill.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine,[3] Jasmine Grenfel (Heming) forsakes her suitor Ian Stafford (Tearle) and marries Rudyard Byng (Lucas), who has worked his way up to the top rungs of success in the African diamond mines of the Transvaal.

Adrian Fellowes (Doucet), his secretary, has intrigues with several women including the dancer Al'Mah (Deshon).

Al'Mah is struck by a fragment of a shell and in a dying confession admits the murder of Fellow.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut the intertitle "Did Fellowes lead you to believe that I am bad?