Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Father Adrien has imposed upon himself. In the end it is all too much for poor Father Adrien and he abandons his vows and escapes into the desert, resuming his secular name Androvsky. On the way to the oasis of Beni-Mora he encounters Domini Enfilden who has been brought up as a Catholic. Androvsky rescues Domini from a rioting crowd and she finds herself deeply attracted to him.
Alice Terry
as Domini Enfilden
Iván Petrovich
as Father Adrien
Marcel Vibert
as Count Anteoni
H.H. Wright
as Lord Rens
Madame Pâquerette
as Suzanne (as Madame Paquerette)
Gerald Fielding
as Batouch
Armand Dutertre
as The Priest of Beni-Mora
Ben Sadour
as The Sand Diviner
Claude Fielding
as Hadj
Rehba Bent Salah
as Ayesha
Michael Powell
as A Tourist
