The successful shipowner Georg Behrendsen and his wife Irene are coming from South America to Germany for business. While negotiating in the home of senator Kersten, the senator's son Wilhelm (Werner Fuetterer) is taking care of Irene Behrendsen. The two fall in love with each other and decide to marry after Irene's divorce from her husband. But the old senator forces his son to decide whether to marry Irene or to become head of the shipping company. Not to break the family tradition, Wilhelm decides against the marriage. Irene, full of hatred against the senator, goes back to her husband. 25 years later. The senator is still head of the shipping company, because Wilhelm was killed in the war. He concentrates his love now on his daughter Victoria and he can't refuse any wish of her. Some day she tells him that she has been falling in love with a young german guy from overseas called Peter Behrendsen, not knowing that he is the son of the women who hates the senator the most.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Heidemarie HatheyerFrau Irene Behrendsen | Frau Irene Behrendsen |
| CCarl KuhlmannSenator Ferdinand Kersten | Senator Ferdinand Kersten |
 Werner FuettererWilhelm Kersten, dessen Sohn | Wilhelm Kersten, dessen Sohn |
 Agnes WindeckFau Mathilde Kersten | Fau Mathilde Kersten |
 Franz SchafheitlinJustizrat Carlsen | Justizrat Carlsen |
 Walter GrossScholtes, Besitzer einer Instrumentenhandlun | Scholtes, Besitzer einer Instrumentenhandlun |
 Rolf MoebiusPeter Behrendsen | Peter Behrendsen |
 Michael von NewlinskyNot listed | Not listed |
 Walter FranckNot listed | Not listed |
 Käthe DyckhoffNot listed | Not listed |
 Willy BirgelNot listed | Not listed |
| WWalter BechmannNot listed | Not listed |
 Maria BesendahlNot listed | Not listed |
 Erich FiedlerNot listed | Not listed |
 Manny ZienerNot listed | Not listed |
| GGert BornowskyNot listed | Not listed |
| IIlse PellemaierNot listed | Not listed |
 Rudolf BernhardNot listed | Not listed |
| MMax HillerNot listed | Not listed |