A young gypsy girl, who dances in a traveling circus, resists the advances of a man who later abducts her and brings her to his home. He attempts to rape her, but she stabs and kills him and then escapes back to the gypsy troupe. She is arrested and jailed in an old fortress but escapes with the help of a gypsy friend and flees to Paris, where she marries a young artist and has a child. Her love of the stage eventually returns, however, and she takes a job in a dance hall. She encounters the gypsies, who have fled to Paris, and sells her jewelry to finance a play which they have written and in which she stars. The play's success leads to an invitation for her to appear at the largest theater in France; she dances there, masked, with her husband and child in the audience. The theater catches on fire in the middle of the performance, and she is reconciled with her husband.