Captain Prince and Susan Webb, a proud pale beauty of "Old South Charleston Society, are rivals for the Mulatto beauty of Monnelia, the "Belle Sauvage" of Chelsea plantation. A gentler girl, Tania Nicoll, attempts to free the pretty Eurasian, Helen Wong, and tastes vengeance from the master's whip. In shuttered houses white girls live a slavery as terrible as that of their darker sisters.