“…Marion Dixon is an American circus artiste, on tour with her German manager, von Kneischitz. When she falls in love with a Russian engineer, her manager tries to blackmail her by revealing that she has given birth to a child out of wedlock, and that the baby is black. …”

“…In the first months after WWII, Russian and American forces are stationed in a fictional Altenstadt in Germany. In the Soviet part German workers under Soviet guidance reconstruct the industry, in the American part of the city night clubs and casinos flourish, while generals and capitalists are obsessively hunting for the optical patents of a scholar, sympathetic towards the Soviets, who is elected a mayor of the city. …”