Vojnar, a clerk in the insurance bureau, lives modestly with his wife Jindra until the moment he meets his schoolmate Hodas, the general director of an iron-works. Hodas introduces him to Sona, who wants to become a film star and hopes that Hodas will finance her film. Vojnar falls in love with Sona, and when he inherits some money from his aunt he divorces his wife and marries her. He lavishes her with riches and also gives her money for the librettist Kaspar who promises Sona to write a screenplay.