A Hungarian-Austrian comedy and one of the last emigrant films made in Austria before the industry submitted to pressure from Nazi Germany and ceased to employ Jewish filmmakers.

Bogdan Stimov, wrongly accused of murder, flees Macedonia for America and becomes a munitions factory director, but returns during World War I to find his Bulgarian estate seized and his daughter’s forced marriage plot igniting a peasant revolt he leads, ultimately pleading his case before the king and earning a pardon.