"Berlin, at the end of the Belle Époque; an unreal era in which the images emerged with which we now fill our dreams and make films. Bessie Love, a beautiful starlet who would do anything to get a role, enters an Absinthe Bar. She points a gun at Herbert, a powerful film producer. He is about to gamble away the budget for his next film. They both have a relation to one woman, Alice Guy, the first film director in the world."