1918. After WWI, Pola Negri dreams of a career as film actress. Cossack Marina Yurlova escapes the Red Army. May Picqueray fights off the Spanish flu.

1919. In Paris, the Treaty of Versailles is closed. Silvio Crespi negotiates for Italy. Former soldier Rudol Hoess hates how Germany is humiliated.

In Europe, inflation and unemployment rise inexorably. May Picqueray joins a group of Parisian anarchists. Social unrests also impact Silvia Crespi's textile firm.

Nguen Ai Quoc joins the Communist International in Moscow and trains as revolutionary. Rudolf Hoess places his hopes on a new politician, Adolf Hitler.

While the upper-class enjoys the "Roaring Twenties", millions live in misery. Marcel Jamet opens a luxury brothel in Paris.

Mass unemployment reaches its peak. Adolf Hitler takes power. Pola Negri loses her fortune. Young aristocrat Unity Mitford is enthralled by Hitler.