Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.

A la fin du XIXe siècle, la jeune Kohana joue les geishas pour sauvegarder l'héritage familial après le suicide de son père, qui a fait faillite. Envoyée dans le quartier de Yoshiwara, elle y tombe amoureuse d'un lieutenant russe.

Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.

Vienna in the beginning of the twentieth century. Cavalry Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is about to end his affair with Baroness Eggerdorff when he meets the young Christine, the daughter of an opera violinist. Baron Eggerdorff however soon hears of his past misfortune...