As aventuras de Gustave H, dono de um famoso hotel europeu, e Zero Moustafa, o criado que se torna no seu amigo de confiança. A história envolve o roubo e a recuperação de uma preciosa pintura renascentista e a luta por uma enorme fortuna de família - tudo sob o cenário de um continente que passa por inesperadas e dramáticas mudanças.
Next to the home of Heinz and Hilde Becker is the villa of the company boss Dr. Bernhard Schenkberg and his wife, who he called "Püppchen". While Schenkberg always politely strives for a good neighborly relationship, his elegant, arrogant wife looks down contemptuously on the grumpy, constantly do-it-yourself Heinz and the conservative, naive housewife Hilde.
The story of a woman who goes on strike: in a fit of anarchic revolt she simply decides to stay in bed – and refuses, like some distaff Oblomov, to see to the thousand and one chores that await her.
