In their small village, Romanian peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with the studious Jan Drakachu. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university eventually becoming a successful engineer. Unbeknownst to him, Katinka, whom he had to leave behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, beats her into submission forcing her to become his mistress in his Syrian gambling den. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Broken, she sees Jan but is too ashamed to speak to him sending instead for her old tutor Boris. Upon arrival Boris kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka, now free, follows Jan to New York. After further travail the pair are finally reunited.
Anna Luther
as Katinka Veche
William Garwood
as Jan Drakachu
Anne Schaefer
as Jan's Mother
Frank Brownlee
as Victor Dravich
Bert Hadley
as Boris
William Lowery
as Ulaf
Murdock MacQuarrie
as Mr. Johnson
Alida B. Jones
as Minka
John L. Franck
as Father Benoni
William Bytell
as Sherwin Matthews
Leon De La Mothe
as Sando Gryj
Eugene Owen
as Warren McLeod
