Two passenger ships dock in the port of Hamburg. Aboard the one is the Russian princess Suwarin, who has fled from the Bolshevik homeland into German exile, while the millionaire Cyrus Proctor disembarks from the other ship. Both passengers have found their accommodation in one and the same hotel. Princess Suwarin must start looking for a job to start earning money. She tries on a film production company, where she meets the movie star Tina Bermonte and falls in love with the auxiliary director Andrej Klipman.