East of Suez (1925)

All the allure of the Orient, with its seething Intrigues, its wily peoples, its mystery, and romance- are all found "East of Suez."

After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that she has become a social outcast, owing to the public revelation that the oriental nurse who raised her was actually her mother...