As was common in Diazs Mexico a young hacienda worker finds his betrothed imprisoned and his life threatened by his master for confronting a hacienda guest for raping the girl This film is the first of several attempts to make a featurelength motion picture out of the 200000plus feet of film shot by Sergei Eisenstein on photographic expedition in Mexico during 193132 for Upton Sinclair and a cadre of private American producerinvestors Silent with music and English intertitles