Gustav Klint's famous "The Kiss" was stolen from an Austrian museum. The night-watchman on duty has an instant cardiac arrest, which brings his haughty daughter back from Paris, where she designs. In hospital, she meets broke count Leopold, who comes return his demented mother to the ancestral castle, which they must soon leave, being bankrupt. To circumvent a law against selling to foreigners, his uncle Albert arranged an 'adoption' by a dodgy Uzbek businessman.