The film's sets were designed by the art directors Paul Markwitz and Heinrich Weidemann.

Peter Schatz is a front desk manager at a hotel where he is very popular with all the guests.

When he inherits a larger sum of money from a former hotel guest in gratitude for his services to her and her dog, his colleague Mathilde suggests he could go on a ski trip into a posh ski resort in the Austrian Alps.

In the evening Peter celebrates a farewell party with all the hotel staff and in the next morning sets off on his travels.

Peter then attracts the attention of a fraudster lady residing in the neighbouring hotel room, who believe him to be very rich as well and scheme to rob him.