Hans Peppler

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

The attaché of a former government of the Ukraine marries a rich Russian woman who wants to climb in society whereas her unnatural affection for another woman keeps her from really becoming his wife. Her daughter falls in love with her stepfather, family drama. The mother and the other woman are murdered, so there is a happy-end for husband and daughter.