Young, naive Luisa Ginglebusher, who loves fairy tales, leaves a Budapest orphanage to become a movie usherette. Soon she befriends a waiter named Detlaff and the not so paternal Konrad, a meat-packing millionaire. She's uninterested in Konrad's rich gifts, but schemes to be a 'good fairy' and divert some of his wealth to poor strangers. But it's not that simple...