The daughter of a local authority is in love with a poor minaret crier and resists a rich man from Tunisia.

Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".

Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.