Forced into a loveless marriage by her mother, Joan Coolidge, a beautiful American girl, finds her husband a brute. She runs away to Paris and studies dancing and becomes The Rage of Paris. Her portrait is hung in the art gallery. Her former sweetheart, a civil engineer fresh from conquests in Arabia, sees the portrait and finds her. When he goes to Arabia she follows. Her husband trails her across the ocean into the desert, but is killed by a half-crazed native during a sandstorm. Joan and her old lover are finally reunited.