[3] The film is a propaganda piece designed to support Fascist policy on empire and concerns about inter-racial romances.

It was shot at the Tirrenia Studios in Tuscany and on location in the Galla Territory of Italian Ethiopia.

Marco the owner of a coffee plantation in Abyssinia, is trying to play his part in building the new Italian Empire.

He becomes concerned however that his Italian staff, in the absence of their wives and families, are becoming overly attracted to native woman.

His junior partner Paolo has to resist the allures of Mailù, an attractive young Middle Eastern woman.