Lissy Arna returns to the isolated mining town after her latest misadventure. Her father grumpily let's her take her old job as barmaid. But when Carl Brisson shows up, there is immediate sexual chemistry, no matter he is engaged. But Miss Arna is having none of it. She's not hooking up with a poor man. So he gets his hand on a map to a lost Lapp gold mine and heads off. So does Edvin Adolphson, who also lusts for Miss Arna and the gold. He has a map too.
This tale of lust and gold fever starts out great, with a lot of fine late silent acting under Gustaf Molander. And then, something peculiar happens. Brisson's fiancee, Anna Lindahl shows up at the bar to demand of Miss Arna what she has done with Brisson... and the whole movie sort of fizzles out from there. We're expecting a rowdydow between the two men, a catfight between the two women, perhaps a barrel of gold or a grim disappointment.... and what we get are Lapps herding reindeer, a return to the bar, an explosion in the local mine, and a truncated ending. Was Molander making this a metaphor for the end of silent pictures? Did the funding -- it was co-financed by British International Pictures, who ran it in their theaters the following year -- run out? Did he need to get to work on his first sound picture? It's a flabbergastingly flat ending.
