German adventurers discover the cultural and natural riches of Yugoslavia regions, their own carelessness almost pays for their fascination with their lives, but the intellect still wins in mastering nature, which offers the winners resources for a better quality of life. All this is framed by a love story. It is a meeting of two cultures and two views of the world.

A woman steals money from her banker husband but her lover, a baron, is jailed.He escapes and under a new identity is a circus daredevil but she threatens him and his new sweetheart.

Chicago gangsters use cunning and a series of false identities in a violent battle for dominance, all while attempting to dodge the police.

When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she takes a job as a chambermaid to a less prominent man.

A popular stage tenor can't stay away from his female admirers until his wife threatens to divorce him.

As a gang of classy jewel thieves hop from one European country to another, an engineer rescues a woman from their clutches.

1865. Katharina goes to a ball in Moscow. There she meets again Tchaikowsky, her first and only love. The young, who is now married to wealthy Michael Iwanowitsch Murakin, a man she does not love, has not forgotten Piotr Illich, the (not yet) famous composer. Both are still in love with each other but Piotr is engaged to Nastassia, a dancer, while for her part Katharina cannot leave her husband. Tchaikowky's first love then decides to sacrifice her happiness to the success of the composer, sponsoring him in secret. Something Piotr will learn only years after. When Katharina finds herself free at last it is too late: Tchaikowsky is dying of cholera and she only has time to close his eyes.