A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
Gravely ill, Prince Woronzeff asks a friend and look-alike, Franz von Naydeck, to replace him at the wedding of his daughter Nadia, whom he has just found, as the family covets the inheritance. Diane, who once loved the prince, doesn't betray the secret, because she now loves Franz and separates...
Composer Joseph Lanner is jealous when the first violinist in his orchestra, none other than Johann Strauss, wants to form his own orchestra also in Vienna and write his own compositions.
