When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
Ivor Novello
as Pierre Boucheron
Mae Marsh
as Odile Etrange
Isabel Jeans
as Zelie de Chaumet
Robert Scholtz
as Herman Stetz
James Lindsay
as Detective Caillard
Marie Ault
as Mere Colline
Julie Suedo
as Mou Mou
Hugh Brook
as Paul
