After the death of her grandfather, Evon Mason, a multiracial woman from Selma, Alabama, travels to the Northwest to identify the mine claim she had been willed. There, Evon meets Hugh Van Allen, a Black man seeking his fortune. Hugh, who loves Evon but thinks that she is white, discovers oil, thereby arousing the enmity of Tom Cutschawl, a racist Southerner, and Jefferson Driscoll, a Black man passing for white who hates his own race. These two provoke an attack of the Ku Klux Klan to drive Hugh off the land, but Evon rescues Hugh, and the Klan is routed. Evon and Hugh eventually resolve their misunderstanding and live happily ever after.
       A review in the 1 Jan 1921 Philadelphia Tribune synopsized the film as follows: “Dick Mason, an aged Negro who had taken a homestead in the wilds of the great Northwest, returns to his former home in the South where he dies, leaving the claim to his granddaughter and the last of his kin, Evon Mason, a beautiful quadroon, who later goes therewith to make proof on the same. Arriving in Oristown, she proceeds to the little hotel wherein one Jefferson Driscoll, night clerk and a Negro, but masquerading as white, refuses her accommodations. Hungry, tired and discouraged, she wanders into the forest; a storm comes up, she becomes lost and is picked up in a miserable condition the next morning by Hugh Van Allen, colored, and a prospector, whom she had met on the street the afternoon before, but who, because he had and was still unknown to her, mistaking her for white, is merely courteous, while with her—she had fallen in love with him at first sight…When later Van Allen discovered how Driscoll had treated her, he goes and beats that one up—result, to ‘get even,’ Driscoll schemes and succeeds in selling Van Allen what he, Driscoll, thought to be a tract of the most worthless land in the country. When he discovered later that those selfsame lands were underlaid with a sea of oil and valuable beyond description, and he was unable to persuade Van Allen to sell them back to him, in league with a Negro hating Squaw-man, he launches a plot to drive Van Allen off the lands and out of the country by recourse to the insidious. At the hour of midnight, robed in white, like ghosts, and with fiery torches, they ride down on Van Allen. In the meantime, Evon, who had gotten world of the plot, dashes into the village and gets the settlers, who ride with her to Van Allen’s rescue. In due time oil is discovered on Van Allen’s lands, he becomes a millionaire—and then of how Evon came back again into his life and he discovered at last that she was of his own blood, makes up one of the most stirring, yet sweetest love stories ever screened.”