Ascha, a little girl, is standing confused in front of the destroyed Czar palace in Russia. None the Czar-Family seems to have survived. An old man has compassion on the little girl, who can remember nothing, not even her name. He decides to take Ascha with him to his home. Many years later, when Ascha has grown up to a pretty young girl, she meets Boris, a young, charming chiseler. At the first glance he recognizes Arischas necklace as part of the czar’s jewelries. And when he found out that Ascha was found in front of the Czars Palace, he immediately assumes that Ascha is the dead believed daughter of the Czar.