Kate Kühl

Le duc de Campo-Formio blessé et à demi inconscient, est soigné par une jeune femme qui fredonne une valse. Lorsque guéri il recherche l'infirmière, il entend chanter le même air par l'impératrice. Ce n'est cependant pas elle qui l'a secouru mais sa coiffeuse par qui le duc se laissera charmer.

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

This film tells the unusually sensitive story of two women who try to cope with men, one a pragmatic gold digger type, not unsympathetic though, the other a dreamer who falls in love with a man in a magic moment ... or so she thinks.