Johann Strauss helps the business of a Viennese wine merchant and his daughter by showing up to conduct the orchestra at a party.

Nanette has a boyfriend Peter who works for her jeweler father, and who the father doesn't think much of.Peter uses a fake identity as "Paul" to recover a stolen gem, so maybe now he will make a better impression.

Germany, end of the 1950s. After his business partner Kleinschmidt fled to the West, Mr. Reichert managed the company they had once founded together in East Germany alone. The company's export hit is a new type of synthetic fiber. But now the West German company, where Kleinschmidt now works, wants to cancel all orders. Kleinschmidt fears that this could be a welcome opportunity for the East German authorities to order the compulsory expropriation of his company. He wants to save the order on a trip to the West. The reunion with his old friend Kleinschmidt is overshadowed by existential fears.

Life for Hanna Bollova has never been easy. No matter what she did in life, how hard she worked, there never seemed to be any money. That is, until one day her fortunes changed distant relatives of hers pass away and she inherits a hotel.