Londres, hacia 1840. Para evitar que su amado, el aristócrata Albert Finsbury, sea condenado por haber falsificado un cheque, la cantante Gloria Vane se declara culpable de los cargos que pesan sobre él y es deportada a la prisión australiana de Paramatta, cerca de Sidney. Por un capricho del azar, Albert es destinado precisamente a esa ciudad como oficial de Su Majestad.
Cardinal Richelieu gives the order that the twin brother of France's King Louis XIV should be removed from the court and taken to the country. There he is educated, without knowledge of his true ancestry, and kept as a prisoner.
A loose adaptation of August Strindberg's Miss Julie. The daughter of a count witnesses her mother's increasing mental instability after being spurned by a lover.
