Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.

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.

Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.