A successful German overseas merchant with a plantation in Haiti is looking for a suitable wife in Hamburg and comes across a barmaid from the Reeperbahn with an illegitimate child. He wants to marry her, but she does not follow him out of nobility. In search of her, he finds her in Mexico as the secretary of his former lover, a writer.

Gustav Knuth
as Henry Brinkmann

Albert Florath
as Wilm

Walter Franck
as Melchior Schlömpp

Ruth Eweler
as Ingeborg

Kurt Waitzmann
as Gustav Petersen

Grethe Weiser
as Kitty

Walter Lieck
as Hermann Polt

Will Dohm
as Miguel Braga

Anneliese Kressel
as Rosita

Michael Simo
as Täm