Against all odds - the film star and the German officer in Paris during the German occupation: The theater and film star Arletty, unforgettable as Garance in "Children of Paradise," falls in love with the German officer Hans Jürgen Soehring, a lawyer who tried his hand at writing after the war, later became a diplomat, and tragically lost his life as an ambassador in the Republic of Congo. The two share a passionate affair under the hostile gaze of their French compatriots and the German occupying forces. Yet even a ban on appearances, house arrest, and demotion after liberation cannot harm their love. Arletty, blind for the last twenty years of her life, passed away at an advanced age in 1992. A glamorous German-French story of love and war that Klaus Harpprecht tells with great passion and elegance.