Sheik Ahmed (Valentino) is longing for fiesty British socialite Diana (Ayres), and thus abducts her and transports her to his opulent desert tent-palace. Diana, who is free-spirited, recoils from his passionate hugs and longs to be free. Diana realizes how much she has grown to love Ahmed only when she is kidnapped by desert bandits. Ahmed rushes to her rescue in the nick of time.