Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.
Jenny, a cleaner, is seduced by a local playboy, Edouard. Jenny's parents reject her after she spends the night with him. She finds a job as a vaudeville dancer, but ultimately winds up in the gutter.
Comedy in which two fellow lieutenants vie for the favor of Fifi, owner of a clothes shop in a Garrison Town. The two friends, each married to a daughter of the General buy a dress for their wife and Fifi is the real winner.