By day he studies medicine, by night he conquers the hearts of women: Josef Kaplan, aspiring doctor, socialist dreamer, gifted tango dancer, charming heartbreaker, and Jew. When he flees from the Nazis to exile in the 1930s, his journey takes him from Prague to Paris and then on to Algeria. In Algiers, he finds the love of his life in a beautiful French actress - Christine. After the war, the couple returns to Prague together, but their happiness is short-lived...