While all the characters are in Chinese, the story of the drama is one of tremendous heart interest, and the climaxes are of great dramatic strength. The pictures presented give one a faithful idea of life in the Chinese quarter of a metropolitan city like San Francisco. The street scene where Kim Soy attempts to fly to her lover's arms by scaling a balcony gives the spectator attractive glimpses of Oriental life. Here are seen the merchants plying their trade; fish dealers selling their wares; vegetable vendors carrying monstrous baskets suspended from their stooping shoulders; fortune tellers practicing their mysterious rites to secure a nickel of the "white devil's" money; tourists moving amid the stream of humanity. The Joss house scene, where the hatchetmen subscribe to an oath to kill Chon Yet, is replete with interesting objects lavishly displayed. The drama has its comic as well as pathetic side, and much fun is provided by an Irish policeman and a mischievous Chinese boy names See-See. More than fifty people, all Chinese, are employed in the pictures. They show nineteen excellent scenes, the whole forming a series of views which for attractiveness and interest never have been excelled.
—Moving Picture World synopsis