Tiring of the idle life at court, young Philip de Mornay goes on a hunting trip with his father, Duc de Mornay. Philip comes across Daphne La Tour, the daughter of the gamekeeper. As she eludes him, he has some toughs in his pay to steal her. She is taken to the house of one Fanchette in Paris. All the women of this place are seized by officers and sent on a ship to America, where they are to be auctioned off as wives for the planters. Meanwhile, Philip has quarreled with the King's counselor. In a fight he thinks he has killed the official. He flees to the purlieus of the city, joins a band of pirates and goes to sea. There is a fight between the pirate ship and the ship bearing the women. The pirates are defeated at the last moment by the bravery of Daphne. As a reward she claims the life of Philip. On shore he rescues her just as she is to be married to Jamie d'Arcy. Philip and Daphne are married, and afterward live happily in France as people of rank.
—Moving Picture World synopsis