as described in a film magazine, anthony hawthorne (reid), an american with modern ideas, stirs fashionable europe when he breads the bank at monte carlo. prince vladimir (stevens), a covetous member of the royal family of a small principality, makes an attempt to obtain the fund hawthorne has on in order to purchase the army of augustus iii (brower), whom he seeks to depose. hawthorne joins the prince in his plot but changes his mind when he meets princess irma (lee) and learns that the prince plans to murder her father. hawthorne works to foil the plot of the prince and ends up establishing a republican form of government and marrying irma.