Film, 1931 yılında Berlinde Nazilerin yükseliş döneminde geçer..İngiltereden Almanyaya öğretmenlik yapmak için gelen İngiliz yazar Brian,bir kabarede şarkı söyleyip dans eden Amerikalı şarkıcıyla tanışır..Aralarında hem siyasi hemde duygusal bir ilişki başlar... Burdan hareketle film Nazilerin değişik yöntemlerle iktidara gelişi anlatmaktadır..

In postwar Germany, a displaced Czech boy, separated from his family during wartime, is befriended by an American GI while the boy's mother desperately searches for him.

This romantic comedy presents a story of two women, twenty-year-old Laura, an editor at a woman’s weekly, and her widowed mother, a translator-interpreter named Jana. The two of them tirelessly seek Mr. Right. Having once lived through an intense relationship with a ‘typical’ Czech man, Jana intentionally avoids Czech men. She searches for her dream foreigner while long-sufferingly warding off the tragicomic advances of her good-natured neighbor Žemla. After several unsuccessful attempts, Laura falls in love with Oliver, a forty year old who works as an ad agency idea man. Little does she suspect that twenty years ago Oliver was Jana’s true love…