When one of his patients is shot trying to escape from police custody, Dr. Gaudet obeys the Hippocratic Oath and tries to save his life, an act for which he is summarily condemned to Devil's Island for ten years. After he and some fellow convicts rebel after a guard's cruelty causes the death of a tubercular prisoner, they are condemned to death. Fate intervenes when Camp Commandant Lucien's daughter is severely injured in a carriage accident. When Lucien realizes that only Gaudet can save his daughter, he offers to trade the prisoner's lives for the doctor's agreement to operate. Although Gaudet saves the little girl's life, the Colonel reneges on his promise by executing the doctor's friend Pierre and condemning the others to solitary confinement. Disgusted by her husband's cruelty, Lucien's wife intervenes by helping Gaudet and his companions to escape.
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