'Romance set around the famous air race in which a girl helps a nervous pilot to victory.' (British Film Institute)
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.