Feliks Promienski inherits from his aunt a small clay figurine representing a pagan god. And from that moment happiness begins to favor him. At races, while playing roulette and in love. At the races Feliks meets Beata .
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.