The glamorous wedding between Valerie Landau and Robert Fox keeps the reporters of fashion magazines on their toes. Because Valerie - the illegitimate daughter of the journalist Barbara Landau and the deceased fashion czar Franz Steininger - marries none other than the son of the American fashion entrepreneur Maximilian Fox. Fox is the great arch rival of the Steininger family, who finally sees his opportunity to come into the possession of the majority share of the traditional Dessousmoden house. Undeterred, Albert Steininger and his fiancee Alpha plan to establish the Aphrodite brand in Italy with the help of influential fashion entrepreneur Pietro Bellini. Due to the enormous entrepreneurial effort, however, the company comes under so much pressure that Albert sees no other option than to ask Maximilian Fox for financial help. This aggravates the fight for supremacy in the family business, including the newly married couple Valerie and Robert has to suffer. Robert does not yet know how to confess to his wife that he spent the night before the wedding with another when another bomb explodes: As Valerie "backwards" learns that Robert was assigned to manage the company shares of her half-sister Tessy , a violent quarrel breaks out between the newlyweds. Robert loses control of the car and it comes to a momentous accident.
—RHDMaas