The war between Reds and Whites still rages in the Crimea, and when the man Jeanne loves kills her father, she learns he is a Bolshevik. Left without money, she goes back to Paris to work for her uncle. Before long her lover Andreas arrives in France to organise the sailors at Toulon. So does Khalibiev, a thief, traitor and libertine who sets out to seduce Jeanne. Between his scheming, the innocence of Jeanne and Andreas, and a missing diamond, the lovers are pushed to the edge of tragedy.