In early 20th Century Europe, a dancer becomes the romantic bone of contention between two men, a humble shepherd and an imperious marquis.

Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. She attracts a lot of attention from everybody, especially from Georg Raval.

The sculptor Peter Starling shot himself in the museum. When the museum director examined the body, he found a diary from whose entries he could deduce the reason for the suicide: Starling had once come across a mummy and a papyrus scroll on a trip to Egypt and had given both artifacts to the museum upon his return. Starling was able to deduce from the papyrus scroll with the cuneiform writing that the mummy, once a king's daughter, would one day awaken and then live as long as the mummy wanted.

Claire, the wife of a bank teller, has a liason with a mysterious stranger while her husband is away.

Harry Bricourt is wealthy and has a family that loves him above all else. Nevertheless, he can not escape the charms of other women and spends a lot of time at the Moulin Rouge. When his wife catches on to him, a friendly actor couple takes her side and makes sure that all the women who play a role in Harry's life disappear due to supposedly terrible events. Cartellieri makes an excellent figure as the ringleader of this conspiracy and does not let the person to be taught out of the expressive eyes.