Genia Nikolaieva

The accounting department of an insurance company is looking for a new secretary. To prevent a repeat of the eternal love affairs between the employees, the head of personnel -- no doubt taking advantage of the not-yet-existent anti-discrimination laws -- is seeking the ugliest troll of a woman he can find to do the office typing. And he believes he's found her in the nondescript Lotte. But the bookkeeper Fritz is deeply offended by such mean, discriminatory practices.

On their way to a boxing competition in Buenos Aires, two criminal investigators, Harry Winkler of Berlin and Conny Steven of Scotland Yard, meet in Lisbon. Both have a 90 minute break before their ship departs for South America. They meet Ilse Siebeck whose uncle has been murdered, and Harry determines that the murderer is the same man who killed his own father a few years earlier.

A woman at a spa keeps sneaking out to see a performer "Quick" (in heavy make-up) do his act. She goes backstage to see him but he is out of his make-up. He tries to get her to fall in love with who he is in real life but she only likes him as a person who can introduce her to "Quick."

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.