In "", Lon Chaney delivers two brilliant performances: he stars as Ah Wing, a peaceful student of Confucian philosophy, and Black Mike Sylva, a dangerous killer from the bowels of San Francisco's underworld. Wing and Sylva represent opposite sides of the moral spectrum -- one is symbolic of good, the other of evil -- but both desire the love of beautiful Molly Madden. And now she must chose between the two suitors, and between a life of safe domesticity or one of dangerous criminality