Plot
Fred von Wellingen, heir to a wealthy industrial family, falls for cabaret bartender Lia Toerrek and proposes to her on the condition that she dances with him. She accepts, but their engagement outrages Fred’s aristocratic family, who disapprove of Lia’s working-class background and her eccentric father, a former vaudevillian whose antics scandalize them at a formal dinner. To prevent the marriage, they offer Fred a lucrative contract and an esteemed title in exchange for breaking the engagement. Although he reluctantly agrees, he cannot bring himself to tell Lia.
Lia eventually discovers the truth and publicly confronts Fred at a high-society dinner where their engagement was to be announced. Her bold defiance catches the attention of Baron von Schwarzdorf, a notorious aristocrat with six previous wives, who impulsively proposes to her. Feeling lost, Lia accepts. Fred rushes to stop the wedding but arrives too late. However, as the newly titled Baroness, Lia is now socially acceptable in Fred’s family’s eyes. As they dance together, Fred subtly implies that her marriage to the Baron may not last long—hinting that love will ultimately find its way back to them.
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