A hilarious story from the golden age of cinema about a Hollywood production of a sentimental and tasteless comedy musical. The English writer, young Christopher Isherwood, succumbing to the director’s persuasion and out of a desire to make money, gets involved in this adventure and tries to save the useless script. Meanwhile, the year is 1934 - cabaret, cinema, hectic social life and the Anschluss of Austria...Eccentric masters and their tired assistants, behind-the-scenes intrigues and professional ambitions, real and fictitious machinations of competitors and everything else that usually eludes the spotlight.