In 1938, in Berlin, Louise von Hollendorf is a well married woman frequenting art classes. Her husband Heinz von Hollendorf is a successful politician in a pre-war German and they have an excellent relationship. During the class, Louise meets Mitsuko Matsugae, an exotica and very discreet Japanese young woman, daughter of the Ambassador of Japan in Berlin. They start a friendship that is followed by a lesbian love between them. Mitsuko indeed is a very seductive and amoral bisexual woman and seduces also Heinz. This relationship ends in a tragedy.