An aging opera star returns to her native Vienna in an effort to re-capture her ebbing youth. There she meets her first love, a prominent surgeon, whom she believes can make her young again through surgery.
The daughter of a famous ballerina makes a smash debut, but is then forced to choose between the bright future of a great career as a prima ballerina or the bright future as wife to the man she loves.
A young wife's interest in antique Buddhas plunges her into a dangerous international smuggling plot, from which her husband desperately tries to save her.