Berlin`s plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of
Dr. Otternschlag `People come, people go. Nothing ever happens`. The
doctor is usually drunk so he missed the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke
and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya`s pearls. He ends up
stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow
beats Kringelein, one of his company`s lowly bookkeepers but it is the
terminally ill Kringelein who holds all the cards in the end. Meanwhile, the
Baron also steals the heart of Preysing`s mistress, Flaemmchen, but she
doesn`t end up with either one of them in the end...