The case concerns an indigent girl accused of vagrancy, a charge which could result in a prison sentence.

The romantic Gil has pity with the attractive girl and testifies on her behalf that he is her fiancée, but the judge remains skeptical and arranges for the two to get married on the spot in order to prove that they are really a couple.

After a series of humorous events, Gil eventually gets his job back, and he and Ann finally fall in love.

In Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, Lilian Harvey's duet with Willy Fritsch from Lucky Kids, "Ich wollt' ich wär ein Huhn" can be heard playing on a phonograph in the basement scene "La Louisiane" as well as in the extended scene "Lunch With Goebbels", as Joseph Goebbels (Sylvester Groth) happily sings a portion of the song after deciding to hold a private screening of the film.

After the screening, cinema owner Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent), under the alias "Emmanuelle Mimieux", comments on liking Lilian Harvey in the film—to which an irritated Goebbels angrily insists her name never be mentioned again in his presence (Harvey hated the Nazis and left Germany in 1939).