Plot

Brilliant but besotted attorney, David Harmon, wins a big case but ends the day in a dingy waterfront flophouse. His fiancée puts him on a sailing ship in an attempt to get him to dry out, but once at sea a storm wrecks the ship and strands Harmon on a tropical island. He rescues the daughter of a native chieftain from being sacrificed to the lava gods and together they live an idyllic life for a time. Harmon is drawn back to civilization though and he returns to his former city only to find that his fiancée has wed his best friend. Another bout of drink finally brings Harmon back to realize that his true life is back on the island so he returns to once again find his beloved about to be sacrificed, this time with their son in her arms.—PetersMoviePosters

David Harmon, a brilliant but dissipated lawyer, wins a verdict for a client in a big criminal case. He disappears and his fiancée, Doris Keith, gets two of his old friends to find the missing man. He is discovered in an insensible condition in a cheap waterfront lodging house. For his own good his friends ship him on a voyage across the Pacific Ocean. The ship is driven ashore. Harmon is rescued and becomes a derelict. He fights with the natives and is driven away. He rescues the daughter of a chieftain, who had been tied to a post and left to be destroyed by hot lava flowing from a nearby crater. The natives thought by the sacrifice of the maiden that they would prevent their own destruction by the eruption of the mountain. He takes the girl as his bride and lives idyllically with her until he is seized with dissatisfaction and the wanderlust. He steals away and regains the city where he had been a shining legal light. Disgusted at seeing the girl he had been betrothed to married to his best friend, he goes on a spree with his companions on the ship. Suddenly he remembers his clean happy life with Aloha Oe. He goes back to the islands. Again he finds the girl tied to the post. This time she is expecting his coming. The villagers see him rescue the girl, who has a little child, his own son, in her arms. They hail him as a god and there is great rejoicing as he is reunited with his bride.—Moving Picture World synopsis