Abdullah Azam, son of the Bedouin Sheik, plots with friends to rob the caravan of Meshur, his father's greatest enemy. The day selected, however, is a religious fast day, a fact forgotten by Jamil. His father sends a messenger to find him, which the messenger does after much trouble, and fearing to disobey his father, Jamil returns home, warning his followers that as it is truly a fast day they must not carry out their plans. They do it however, despite his orders, and his father learns of it. His father accuses him, and in the quarrel which follows words are passed which so anger Jamil that he leaves his father's home. This part of the picture forms a sort of prologue, and the balance and main part of it shows the formation of a plot to massacre the Christians in the village, at the command of the Sultan, the working out of the plot in all its subtle ramifications, and its final defeat, due to the love of Jamil for a Christian girl, the daughter of an American missionary, which causes him to protect the Christians with his Bedouin followers, he having become Sheik through the death of his father.
—Moving Picture World synopsis