Cairo, 1901. Egypt is under British occupation and the European quarter is a playground of the rich. Lord Mark Trevelyan is a rogue and confirmed bachelor who lives in the luxurious Shepheard's Hotel and makes ends meet by selling bogus Egyptian antiquities. Lady Laura Blackstone is a London society woman who has come to Cairo to escape the unwanted notoriety thrust upon her by her recent divorce, and finds herself attracted to the crooked Trevelyan...