A feather-light comedy from 1920's Mölle with Nils Poppe and the Gaubier ballet. The play is about a grey aged bachelor who suddenly becomes every woman's dream prince when a rumor starts to circulate that he used to have a relationship with a famous movie star.
The plot takes place on a mansion owned by the new widow Birgitta von Carping (Berit Carlberg). Sten Stensson Steen (Nils Poppe) has rented a room in the manor. He accidentally arrives a month early and the carousel is in full swing.
Bank manager Pankh has a habit of promoting the men who let him spend some time with their wives. Pelle Finkel doesn't want to subject his own wife to this so he decides to hire the prostitute Mimmi to pose as his wife.
Librarian Roger Fleuriot is in love with princess Saint Labiche but doesn't dare admit it because of their different classes. The princess feels the same way and invents a twin sister that works in a shoe shop that she pretends to be in order to seduce him.
A shy and aging bachelor suddenly becomes very interesting to the women in town after a rumour starts spreading about him being together with a famous movie star in his youth.
