A preppy American hustler arrives in a small Irish town, where he informs the residents that he is researching the life of a General John Regan. The local physician, Dr O'Grady, calls the American's bluff by manufacturing the non-existent hero and having a monument unveiled to him with full civic honours.
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force.
A north-country chimney sweep standing for Parliament is opposed by a local bigwig. His campaign is imperiled when his artist son, Tony, falls in love with a girl who has reason to hope that the bigwig will be elected.
Life is good in the port of Marseille but Titin is accused of murder!! ... His girlfriend is very unhappy and does not know what to do to prove her innocence .