O atraente Oberleutnant Paul Wendlandt está parado no norte da África como um piloto de caça. Enquanto vai a Berlim entregar um relatório, ele recebe um dia de folga, e no palco do teatro de cabaré "Skala" vê a popular cantora dinamarquesa Hanna Holberg. Para Paul, é amor à primeira vista. Quando Hanna visita amigos após o final da apresentação, ele a segue e fala com ela no U-Bahn. Após a festa no apartamento de suas amigas, ele acompanha sua casa e a chance os joga mais juntos quando um aviso de ataque aéreo os força a se cobrir no abrigo do ataque aéreo. Hanna retribui os sentimentos de Paulo, mas depois de uma noite passada, Paul deve retornar imediatamente à frente. Agora, segue toda uma série de mal-entendidos, e uma oportunidade perdida após a outra. Enquanto Hanna espera em vão algum sinal de vida de Paul, ele está voando em missões no norte da África. Quando ele tenta visitá-la em seu apartamento de Berlim, ela está dando um show de Natal em Paris.
"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.
The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at the residence of a pair of avowed women hating bachelors.
This film tells the story of the fictional Dr Barnay and recounts his experience of the First World War. He works as a doctor in a military hospital and has always been committed to bringing about the end of war. When his wife dies in an air raid, he spends all of his time working on an anti-war invention to distract himself, and in the process neglects his new wife and his child. When the child is killed in an accident because of his machinery, he ends up pushing away his wife and best friend and focusing solely on his invention. In the end he sees the error of his ways, reconciles with his wife and friend and realizes that peace for humanity is something which comes from within.
