一五七八年，巴黎，亨利三世和弟弟安茹公爵两派斗争激烈。德-比西是安茹派的第一勇士，他被国王派的剑客刺伤后，为一个绝色美女所救。这个绝色美女名叫狄安娜，她后来成了王家犬猎队队长蒙梭罗的夫人。狄安娜与比西两情相悦，可阴谋正在他们周围悄悄酝酿……

Having found the fabulous treasure of which Abbé Faria had spoken to him, Dantès has only one idea left: revenge. He will succeed patiently, but will not however have the heart to break the poor Mercedes. Then he will leave for the East, accompanied by a lovely Levantine, Haydé, who served him to accomplish his revenge.

The engineer Georg de la Croix ( Herr Alfred Abel ) suffers a nervous breakdown due to the continuous unfaithfulness of his lover, Dame Sappho ( Dame Pola Negri ). Georg ends up in a lunatic asylum. His brother, Richard ( Herr Johannes Riemann ) wants to avenge him but instead falls in love with the beautiful Dame Sappho. When Herr Richard finds out from a previous lover of Dame Sappho that she was the cause of his brother's insanity, Richard decides to put an end to his affair with her by marrying someone else but he still must see Dame Sappho, even minutes after the wedding.