This film is a genuine rarity and, restored to the full beauty of its pastel-shaded Technicolor hues, it promises to be like nothing you've seen on the screen. The first film to be made in the two-color Technicolor process, it is also the film which made Anna May Wong into a star. The Toll of the Sea is a poignant variation on Madame Butterfly, set in China, where a young woman, Lotus Flower, finds a man washed up on the seashore and rescues him, despite the warning of an ancient Chinese legend that the sea will exact twice the pain as the joy it gives. They fall in love and marry, but the man, an American, eventually returns home, and their next meeting is a tragic one.