Szánthó Tamás is conducting a concert, while his young wife and her secret lover play in the same theatre in the Tragedy of Man. On Christmas Eve the wife, Ágnes announces that she is going to leave her husband and their daughter, Buksi and will live with Miklós. After the divorce Ágnes and Miklós get married in France and go to Hollywood. However, only Ágnes is successful, so they move back to Hungary. At home Ágnes is told by a hostile governess that her husband died, By now Buksi has grown to Judit and falls in love with her attractive stepfather. Ágnes steps aside and later dies in an accident.