The film, which includes six episodes, presents some aspects of women's emancipation in the East. Egyptian Aiscia did not want to be subjected to the old traditional costume, which imposed a life of sacrifices, but making ballet dancers in a nightclub leads to a more conformed European habits, but questionable from the moral point of view . In Malaysia a nice girl collects coconuts with the help of a monkey. The next episode takes place in Nepal, a country where polygamy is, apparently, a feminine prerogative. The sentiment affirms the victory of true love over the sad costume. Mai Ling is a lightweight girl in Hong Kong who admires that the alleged love of a German can take her away from the drifting life she leads, but she has to persuade her romantic friend to be a new kind of exploiter. In Thailand a girl submits to an immoral life to procure opium to her boyfriend. The film finally tells the story of a Japanese pearl racer, who being a concubine, must suffer the violence of her master.