Alone in the field of equipment props were partly culled across Europe to replicate the creation of the bourgeois and aristocratic world of the past century.
The young aristocrat Sophie von Ahlen visits to illicit a civil wedding in an urban inn and falls head over heels in there Max Grebe, the son of a seamstress.
For the industrialist Friedrich Hartstein tried - with the help of his henchman Hans Stallkamp and the gamblers and therefore financially dependent on it Baron Wolfgang von der Fohl - ascend into the aristocratic circles of the city when he applied for membership in a feudal cigarette club.
Count Otto von Ahlen, Sophie's father, is the only one to vote against the membership and thus prevents Hartenstein's inclusion in the club.
But now his ex-mistress, Baroness Valerie Viethoff, knows the exact background and it manages to tell Sophie to front on her wedding night with Frederick the whole truth.
Sophie tries again to escape, but she has no chance of Frederick finds with Lotte in sewing, she pulls back and locks it in his city office.