Adapted from a successful stage play, ~Window to the Hall~, this standard comedy centers on the gradual disillusionment of Annie Wiesner (Inge Meysel) who works in a Berlin rooming house as a cross between a door guardian and a receptionist. She has great hopes for her two daughters and one son -- they will surely go farther than Annie's meager position in life, especially since the older daughter is already in the U.S., married to a millionaire. Her husband Karl (Rudolf Platte) works as a streetcar conductor and the interactions between the couple provide much of the humor. The rest is provided when the supposedly well-married daughter returns home very much single, with a little child in tow, needing her parents support. And then the rest of the brood contributes to Annie's woes.