Alajos Mészáros

Liszka, une jeune orpheline, est élevée par son oncle. Avant de mourir, celui-ci lui révèle que sa mère n'est pas morte, mais en prison depuis des années. Liszka part pour la ville où elle est engagée comme femme de chambre dans une demeure bourgeoise. Miklós, le fils de la famille, tombe amoureux d'elle...

Based on a popular stage musical comedy by Károly Bakonyi and Andor Gábor, the film tells the story of a young engineer who tries to construct a railway in his hometown, helped by the Count's daughter, Marcsa (Lili Berky).

A baron has recurring nightmares of being a dock worker on the run.

Kati (Bella Muzsnay), the daughter of a landowner (László Bakó), is not very sad while her fiancé, Matyi (Sándor Szőke), is a prisoner of war in Russia: she meets the handsome goulash (Sándor Garamszeghy). He is not too happy when Matyi returns home from Siberia. The two men competing for her hand get into a fight and the goulash is sent to prison. The proposal goes through, but the goulash escapes from his cell. After a long chase, he is captured, but on the day of the wedding his sentence expires and he is released. The newlyweds spend their wedding night in the attic, and the jealous goulash burns down the house in revenge.