Summary
A Manhattanite sybarite, Brooke Travers, slips through the gilded seams of privilege when a yellow-cab chase for a forgotten coin becomes a stowaway odyssey; the Hudson’s fog dissolves into the equatorial steam of a revolution where oil, blood, and family crests intermingle. Aboard a freighter that smells of coal and mutiny, the heir confronts Juanita—her eyes two emeralds flecked with gunpowder—whose father commands the ragged insurgency against Brooke’s own dynastic sire. The tropics turn into a fever-dream of baroque cathedrals looted for rifles, ballroom chandeliers swapped for gallows, and a finale where filial loyalty is auctioned to the highest conscience. When the last shell ricochets off the presidential palace, the fortune heir chooses exile in justice, not wealth, and the closing iris finds him walking into a sunrise that belongs to no flag.
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Pursued by a cab driver for an unpaid fare, a millionaire's son, Brooke Travers (Wallace Reid), hides on a steamer, and both men find themselves en route to South America, where they are caught up in a revolution. Brooke falls in love with Juanita (Lila Lee), then learns that she is the daughter of the leader of the revolution and his father's enemy. Although his father's business interests control the country, Brooke helps the revolutionary forces to victory and earns his father's respect.
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