Comédie des mœurs dans un café des artistes zurichois annonçant les années soixantes. Une fille de campagne cherche son mari qui est en prison et sa sœur a des mauvaises fréquentations.
A meek tailor named Nickolaus decides to form a band of robbers to proof his manliness. Unfortunately he soon draws the attention of an actual gang-leader, Der Rote Rollo.
Vienna, Austria, late 1870s. After suffering an irreparable misfortune, the Austrian composer Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-99), the Waltz King, falls in love with a ballet dancer, which disappoints the famous operetta singer Marie Geistinger…