This comedy pokes fun at the military exercises Germans were fond of doing in the lead up to the Great War.

A young actress places a misleading newspaper ad: "Hans, come back! Am so lonely and unhappy!" As a result, she is besieged by a crowd of unmarried cavaliers, all pretending to be her Hans.

A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.

Caught at the window just before an air-raid warning (WWII) composer Paul tells how he met his wive Anni, a revue star and song writer, how he handled the courtship and the early years of his marriage, inspite of some professional conflicts - his operas were flops, while his wive had one success after the other - they finally found out how they could help each other.

Herr Eickmeyer is a wealthy parfumier: well past middle age, and stout with it. His blonde wife Lissy is much younger, pretty and vivacious. Since Eickmeyer can't keep up with his young wife, he commissions a companion for her in the form of a life-sized talking clockwork man, purchased for 5,000 deutschemarks ... to be shipped to his home immediately it's assembled.

Brigitte von Gersdorf became an actress against her parents' wishes. At drama school, she and her friend Erika are now waiting for their big break.