In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of committing to her, he marries a socially prominent young woman from San Francisco. The spoiled girl does not easily adapt to the rigors of plantation life and she gets terribly bored. She is just about to give in to the romantic overtures of a persistent native when her former lover shows up. The husband gets jealous and is about to attack him when the wife sets fire to the cane field. The husband's native lover saves him from death. Afterward, his wife leaves to be with her old flame, and the manager is free to be with the woman he's loved all along.
Virginia Cherrill
as Lucille Cheney
Mona Maris
as Leilani
Hardie Albright
as Chandler Morris
David Newell
as William Hawkes
Arthur Clayton
as Armia
Robert R. Stephenson
as Mac (as Bob Stevenson)
Whitney De Rahm
as Hale
Naomi Childers
as Mrs. Cheney
Nani Palsa
as Adam
Kolimau Kamai
as Lono
Kamaunani Achi
as Mrs. Hale
Peter Lee Hyun
as Soong
