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