本片时代背景为公元前三世纪，一次火山爆发时，混乱中一个女孩卡比莉亚被海盗绑架，卖身为奴。买家正要用女孩作为祭品献给神庙时，一个罗马人还有她自己的奴隶均挺身而出救了她。十年后，腓尼基输给了罗马，卡比莉亚重返故乡。

In her later years, the manager of the estate for Countess Di Bard defrauds her, and she is forced to live in the garret of her palace. She accepts her unfortunate situation, until the daughter of the Marquis, who occupies the palace, falls in love with a young engineer, whom the Countess claims is the lost son of her …

The uncle of Josephine employs gangsters to abduct her, and in fleeing from them she enters a motion picture theater, where she sees Maciste playing in the screen drama, "Cabiria." The story pictures Maciste escaping from prison by bending iron bars, and Josephine decides that a man of his strength can be of …