[1] It was based on the operetta Die geschiedene Frau by Leo Fall and Victor Léon.

Extremely pedantic and sometimes choleric Lukas van Deesteldonck is president of the Dutch sleeping car company.

On a train journey from Paris to Amsterdam, Gonda is offered a sleeper coupe by her stage partner Karel van Lyssewege after she couldn't get one herself.

One day Gonda receives a visit from her father, who works as a missionary in Borneo.

Knowing that he would be distraught to learn about her divorce, she gets Karel to play the role of her husband.